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Rolling In High. On the road to Manila, the Jap was still fading backward faster than any U.S. optimist had dared to hope. Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps swept ahead, the 37th (Ohio) Division under Major General Robert S. Beightler on the left, and the 40th under Major General Rapp Brush on the right. With its flank protected by the Buckeyes, the 40th rolled into Clark Field in time for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to announce its capture on his 65th birthday. With more than a dozen runways, Clark was the greatest air base...
Thus the enemy revealed another part of his intention: not to risk any large part of his forces until it was clear whether General MacArthur planned other landings. There were two natural bottlenecks between Clark Field and Manila where small Jap forces could hold. And Manila itself, the Japs trumpeted, was being fortified street by street. The real battle for Luzon was not over; it simply had not begun...
...transportation from the program, to be planned separately. But the industrial program provides for part of the equipment needed to expand transportation in China. The plan includes cement plants, locomotive and freight-car shops, and factories to make earth-moving equipment. It also plans to locate many industries at Jap-held centers like Peiping and Tientsin...
...open, and through our telescopes we can see them darting across in ones and twos, leaping into trenches. Everybody in the OP is yelling as they pour in. Some of them drop, spring up again, dash from shattered stump to shattered stump. Then nobody can be seen and Jap mortars blanket the entire position from behind the ridge...
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...