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...north, 1st Cavalry Division and 24th Infantry Division units, weary after more than three weeks of steady fighting -Major General Frederick Irving's 24th still bore Leyte's brunt-pushed southward from Carigara Bay, but had advanced no more than two miles by week's end. From the south the 7th and 96th Divisions progressed just as slowly while the Japs prepared for the big battle...
...infantrymen. Major General Frederick Irving's 24th Division, which had drawn one of the biggest shares of the fighting, won the little village of Cavite after a bayonet charge-a rare expedient for firepower-conscious U.S. soldiers. Pressing on, the 24th had a hard tussle before Carigara. It took the town after four days, when the Japs suddenly pulled...
...TIME Carigara, Leyte...
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