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Down from the north drove Major General Robert S. Beightler's 37th Infantry Division, to capture and lose the three-storied City Hall four times before finally taking it for good. In the battered stone Post Office they fought the Japanese into the pitch-dark basement and finished them off with Tommy guns, mortars and grenades, setting flares ricocheting around the walls for a few moments of light...
...There was the 37th Division, once Ohio National Guard, and still the "Buckeye Division" although its troops from Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati and a thousand Ohio towns and hamlets now served alongside fighting men drafted from across the nation. Its commander, 52-year-old Robert Sprague Beightler, was a civilian soldier with active service on the /Mexican border and in World War I. Between wars he had been a construction engineer, had become director of Ohio's State Highway Department. Round-faced, warm-eyed General Beightler had been the first National Guard officer to lead his division into combat...
...Race on the Roads. The stage was set for the big third act. To play the principal role, both Buckeyes and cavalrymen drove swiftly southward. The cavalry had mechanization and thus the big advantage. While Beightler's foot-slogging Buckeyes hurried along, cleaning out nest after nest of Japs as they went, Mudge's cavalrymen piled into trucks, jeeps and half-tracks at Guimba and ripped toward Manila over Highway...
...weary, sweaty 37th, this was a hell of a note. Growled General Beightler: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those --feather merchants beat...
Rolling In High. On the road to Manila, the Jap was still fading backward faster than any U.S. optimist had dared to hope. Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps swept ahead, the 37th (Ohio) Division under Major General Robert S. Beightler on the left, and the 40th under Major General Rapp Brush on the right. With its flank protected by the Buckeyes, the 40th rolled into Clark Field in time for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to announce its capture on his 65th birthday. With more than a dozen runways, Clark was the greatest air base...