Word: cagayan
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...incredibly difficult mountains, the pride of Japan's Philippine Army had had enough. As braggart Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita's 20,000 remaining men, demoralized and disorganized, stumbled toward the coast, U.S. troops came in fast behind them through the rough-walled gorges of the Cagayan Valley...
Worse than Burma. The Cagayan Valley drive was the culmination of fighting in terrain so cruel that General Joseph W. Stilwell said it was worse than Burma. Major General Innis P. ("Bull") Swift, corps commander, had sent his divisions driving through backbreaking country that was all gorges and razor-backed ridges and mountain peaks that prodded the clouds. One division had advanced only 1,000 yards in four weeks, lost and retook one hill four times. The world may never have seen steeper fighting...
...rainy season. On Mindanao U.S. troops worked slowly toward Mount Apo, highest peak in the Islands, where retreating Japs melted back into the brushy, green slopes. North on Luzon opposition was lighter, and Sixth Army forces were able to poke a long, strong finger deep into the Cagayan Valley where some 20,000 of General Tomoi-juki Yamashita's troops were cornered. Explained one grinning, bowing Jap prisoner: "Yamashita no good...
...defense lines were cut through. On Luzon last week they lost their grip on Manila's water supply system when 38th Division troops captured Wawa Dam intact. Santa Fe fell, though some 30,000 enemy troops stood ready to fight it out on the fertile floor of the Cagayan Valley. On Mindanao Jap units were being driven back into the unexplored mountain jungles east of the Sayre Highway...
...constabulary officer, Lieutenant Pedro Dionisio, raced the flood to his headquarters at Echagüe and telegraphed before the wires went down that there were already 20 known dead in the village of Cagayan. He added: "No reports received from the towns and barrios around Ilagan, as they are submerged." The postmaster at Alcala succeeded in reporting that the river was six feet over the tops of the telegraph poles. Reports from another village indicated that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming...