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...Cost. Almost as notable as the completeness of the Philippine victory was the relatively low cost of the damage done to the enemy. MacArthur's canny army commanders, General Walter Krueger (boss of the Sixth, on Luzon) and Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger (of the Eighth, in the southern islands), had carried out the reconquest with masterly economy of force. The cost accounting was still incomplete, but the latest compilation (made July 1) showed 11,921 Americans killed in the liberation of the Philippines, 401 missing and 42,569 wounded-a total...
Dignified General Walter Krueger briefed the troops himself, and was on hand for the dawn take-off to wish the men "good luck, now." As Sixth Army commander he had worked out the plan to end the Cagayan Valley campaign in northern Luzon. He had a special interest in the 11th Airborne Division's jump be hind Japanese lines...
Throughout the Luzon campaign Volckmann and his Ilocanos-short, dark-skinned, sensitive northern Filipinos-worked on their own within the planning orbit of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army. With air support they swept around the western and northern coasts of Luzon, ranged down the west bank of the Cagayan River and kept the Japanese nervously watching on every side...
...Tenth is the third U.S. Army to appear in the Pacific. The others: Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth, Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger's Eighth, both operating in the Philippines...
...admirals got a fourth star: grizzled 60-year-old Richard S. Edwards, King's deputy COMINCH; shy, barrel-chested Henry K. Hewitt, 58, "Nimitz of the Mediterranean"; suave, salty Thomas C. Kinkaid, 57, boss of the Seventh Fleet and member of MacArthur's famous "K-team" (Kinkaid, Krueger and Kenney). Five rear admirals got three stars-but none of the eight was a naval aviator, and none was under 53. Only in the lower echelons did a few stars fall on airmen: on two commodores and three captains...