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Exploitation. General MacArthur and his Sixth Army commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, had chosen Leyte as their target because its capture would seal off Mindanao and the other southern and central Philippine Islands, furnish bases for U.S. planes to cut Japan's supply lines to the East Indies storehouses. Then they had picked for the main assault the spot on Leyte where their armor and fire power could be used most advantageously: the upper half of the eastern shore line which leads down into the fertile Leyte Valley...
...beyond the retirement age (64), he was still learning his art, still finding new plays for his battle-tried team in which Sutherland and the three Ks (Krueger, Kinkaid and Kenney - see below) functioned as smoothly as the Naval Observatory clock in Washington. It was a winning team, and Douglas MacArthur had made...
...land on Leyte (as a result of the Navy's success in using carrier-borne air power to batter down Jap land-based air power), the guerrillas were alerted. Commando parties were sent by MacArthur's Sixth Army commander, German-born, 63-year-old Lieut. General Walter Krueger, to gather information and to destroy a few key Jap posts...
...about a little credit to one of our most capable and best-liked generals-Lieut. General Krueger? We read of "Bradley's Army," "Doolittle's Eighth," "Clark's Fifth," etc. which is well and good, but how about "Krueger's Sixth?" They're in this war too . . . ask the Japs who were in New Guinea...
...credit to MacArthur's able Lieut. General Walter Krueger; his three stars have all too often been obscured by his boss's shining four...