Word: cagayan
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...could exports pay the way. All of the 41 sugar centrals were damaged by the Japs, and much sugar land was ruined in an abortive Jap attempt to raise cotton. In the tobacco-growing Cagayan Valley in northeastern Luzon, only one cigar factory escaped serious damage. (The tobacco industry once furnished 25% of Government revenues.) The rich gold mines (prewar output $39,000,000) were caved in and looted of machinery. Small farmers have no tools; most of their clumsy carabaos, the Filipinos' animal of all work, had been slaughtered for food...
Dignified General Walter Krueger briefed the troops himself, and was on hand for the dawn take-off to wish the men "good luck, now." As Sixth Army commander he had worked out the plan to end the Cagayan Valley campaign in northern Luzon. He had a special interest in the 11th Airborne Division's jump be hind Japanese lines...
...37th's Major General Robert S. Beightler, who was later nicked lightly on the brow by a Jap shell splinter: "The Japs can't stand up to an American division on the flat. They cannot take that tremendous fire power." Two days after the jump the Cagayan Valley was U.S. territory - the 11th and 37th had met near the burning nipa huts of Alcala without a Jap soldier in sight...
...front line the fighting was more conventional, with the U.S. 37th Division striking fast and hard along the Cagayan Valley, rolling the Japs back in front of it eight miles a day. But the forays into the Jap rear and middle were largely the work of a first-rate guerrilla outfit and its blue-eyed, sandy-haired commander...
...Luzon campaign Volckmann and his Ilocanos-short, dark-skinned, sensitive northern Filipinos-worked on their own within the planning orbit of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army. With air support they swept around the western and northern coasts of Luzon, ranged down the west bank of the Cagayan River and kept the Japanese nervously watching on every side...