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General Marshall had to add 25,000 men to Ike's January quota to help replace his 40,000 casualties in the Bulge. He further increased the flow of infantrymen to the theater by shipping the infantry regiments of a number of divisions still in training, in advance of their artillery regiments. Taking other measures to meet a continuing crisis, the War Department has asked Selective Service to increase draft calls to 80,000 in January and February, 100,000 from then on; has reduced the training period from 17 to 15 weeks...
Nowhere in the vast Pacific was there more than a crumb of comfort for the Japanese. On Luzon, infantrymen and tankmen of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army were probing toward Manila (see below). True, the Japanese had as yet suffered only slight losses in men and materiel, because they had elected not to meet the attack head on at this stage. Thus they conserved for a later stand, perhaps in the mountains of northern Luzon, perhaps on Bataan, perhaps both. But such a stand could only delay U.S. seizure of strategic Luzon...
...knot of ten or twelve grey-blue figures bursts out of the thickets just above a Japanese pillbox and goes tumbling down atop it with bayonets ready to clear it. The men seem hurried, fast, awkward. About 3 o'clock we make out a long file of Chinese infantrymen crawling along through the undergrowth, still invisible to the enemy, 300 yards above them. Then they, too, disappear...
Climax & Aftermath. Suddenly two yellow flares arch out of the smoke. They signal possession. For five minutes there is no movement. The smoke slowly drifts away. Then, one by one, infantrymen begin to appear on the Jap parapets, walking about nonchalantly against the skyline, stretching their arms, folding up wire...
Dusk came early. When the grey day darkened, the infantrymen and tanks had crunched over the first two lines of deep German defenses. Parts of these lines had melted away in the storm of fire. The Russians told of trenches "piled high" with German dead. Where Germans had lived through the storm the Russians found them stunned...