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...forces that made the first, unopposed gains on Luzon last week were no mere regiments or elements of regiments: they were the XIV Corps of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army. They were armed with weapons which had been designers' dreams three years ago. They were tough and junglewise. They were backed by fleets and air forces which dwarfed those of the enemy. They knew that in reserve were other corps to keep the drive rolling in high. General MacArthur was on his way to Manila. To secure the island of Luzon, he had four...
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...
...miserable weeks, while U.S. ground forces on Leyte were half submerged in a sea of mud, the Sixth Army's leathery 63-year-old commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, had been planning to break the Philippine stalemate. As part of his plan he had insisted that U.S. patrols must keep the initiative: mud or no mud, they must keep the enemy off balance. Said Krueger: "I asked my troops to do the impossible and they did it." The next phase of Krueger's plan required the 7th and 32nd Divisions to step up their pres sure...
...that side of the International Date Line when the last phase of Walter Krueger's plan was sprung: a new amphibious attack. It was sprung just in time. General Tomoyuki Yamashita had a plan too : to break the U.S hold on Leyte by aerial landings on U.S. airfields and to run in a convoy of reinforcements to Ormoc. Yamashita's convoy did not make it! Krueger...
Advice to Corporals. Husky, long-chinned Major General Andrew Bruce had pulled his 77th (Statue of Liberty) Division back from the lines to the beaches of Leyte Gulf. On the grey sands, Krueger reviewed the force-including his son-in-law. Colonel Aubrey D. Smith, commanding the 306th Regiment. Said Father-in-Law Krueger: "I want every corporal to realize that he commands an army just as I do, except that mine is a bigger army." Then the men marched up the ramps of waiting LCIs...