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Joseph T. McNarney, Omar N. Bradley, Walter Krueger, Brehon B. Somervell, Carl Spaatz, George C. Kenney, Mark Clark, Jacob L. Devers, Thomas T. Handy...
Mucci's Rangers. The rescued men learned then who their deliverers were. They were from the Sixth Army of Lieut. General Walter Krueger, who had moved swiftly south from Lingayen Gulf. Filipino guerrillas had reported the location of their camp, which was 25 miles inside the Jap lines on the Sixth's left flank. The men who had rescued them were 286 Filipinos and 121 picked men of the U.S. 6th Ranger Battalion. The squat, handsome man wearing a lieutenant colonel's insignia and a shoulder holster over his sweat-stained shirt was Henry Andrew Mucci...
Forging the Trident. From the day MacArthur's first elements made their beachhead on Lingayen Gulf, the way lay straight down the central valley to Manila, and there was no doubt that MacArthur and his Sixth Army commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, intended to go there just as fast as they could drive. But there were other things to consider. The Jap must not be allowed to slip onto Bataan. And he must not be allowed to prolong his hold on Manila...
Island by Island. MacArthur was not asking for any kindly old man when, in February 1943, he requested the War Department to send Krueger to Australia to head the Sixth Army. Headquarters in a Brisbane hotel was too plush for Krueger: he moved to a camp 16 miles out of town and lived in a hut. Later he was to live in many a hut, from Milne Bay to Good-enough Island, New Britain, Hollandia and Leyte...
...town. They had got their men out and destroyed their supplies. Only in the northeast they were fighting like catamounts, forcing some Sixth Army units to fierce local combat, which was incongruous with the overall pattern of planned withdrawal. There was evidence that the enemy, having been bested by Krueger in 16 operations, at last had realized that it was useless to fight an old soldier on his own terms...