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Their best cave-and-pillbox 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...
This fantastic treasure was discovered by a Seventh Army counterintelligence task force which was scouring the countryside for hidden stores of bullion. They first found an empty cave built into a hillside, then Captain Harry V. Anderson found the engineer who had designed the cave. One room, the engineer said, had been walled up. The wall was broken down, and there, in dripping darkness, was the Göring treasure...
...infantrymen went after them with some new ideas. On Luzon they had discovered that the 90-mm. antiaircraft gun, with its high muzzle velocity and flat trajectory, makes an excellent cave-closing weapon. When the gun is brought into position, its accurate sights permit gunners to draw a sniper's bead on cave mouths thousands of yards away. In twelve days two guns closed over 100 caves on Balete Pass; one cave later yielded 23 Japs, dead of suffocation...
Next, in a cave on the side of a hill overlooking the sea, Tweed felt "for the first time in over three months . . . that I had successfully eluded the Japs long enough to enjoy a breathing spell. . . . My cave was well concealed, and I was already turning over in my mind the ways in which I would make it more comfortable." With ingenuity and the help of an enterprising Chamorro he soon succeeded...
Good Man Friday. A stolen gasoline generator was rigged to provide current for a light bulb and another salvaged radio. With the aid of a battered but usable typewriter, Tweed even began publication of a newspaper, the Guam Eagle, (for a circulation of five loyal Chamorros.) "My cave became a rendezvous. It was growing more comfortable all the time. ... In exchange for world news supplied by the radio and the Guam Eagle, I received a steady flow of supplies and local intelligence from a few friends." All this had to be abandoned hastily when Tweed discovered that the Chamorro...