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...Inland to ELAS. The delegation was composed of five British trade-union leaders with impeccable labor records. At its head was Sir Walter Citrine, general secretary of Britain's Trades Union Congress. The British trade unionists interviewed scores of miscellaneous Greeks and some 500 British paratroopers (not officers) in Athens. It traveled 100 miles inland to interview ELAS' trade-union leaders, who claimed to be the real leaders of the Greek workers...
With no obstacles except the terrain (part sandy, part marshy), Krueger's men quickly pushed inland, consolidated their separate beachheads, put Lingayen airfield into service, and started south on good highways toward Manila. For days, the Japs faded away ahead of them. On the western flank, the Agno River was early crossed. In the center, where the river's great bend made a logical position for a determined Japanese stand, it was crossed again at week's end, still against only token opposition. On the east, there was stiff local resistance, but if the Jap had been...
...Good Old Navy. The task force set off on its 550-mile push through the inland seas. G.I.s quietly rejoiced for their Navy-it was all over the place, close by and below the horizon...
...troops pushed quickly inland. The firm, dry soil made Mindoro seem like heaven after the mud of Leyte. Within three days they were eleven miles inland and had seized San Jose and its airdromes, while U.S. and Aussie engineers began work on other airfields. On Mindoro's flats and in its valleys there was room, and need, for plenty of them...
...method of extracting the Japs was a series of inshore patrols by a landing craft. As marines inland prodded every tussock, probed every cave, the LCI cruised close to the cliffs, while a language officer at a loudspeaker urged the Japs to come on down and give up. Among his persuasions: good food, clean beds, plenty of bathing, the chance of honorable surrender. Some of the Japs were persuaded. Many others, still convinced that there was no such thing as honorable surrender, were...