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...dimness of the future, there was no air of hopelessness in Manila. Its people knew that, no matter how hard the future, it would not be as bad as the years...
...addition. T.W.A. plotted a fast route to the Orient (via the Northern Pacific) to complete its bid for a round-the-world route. North west bid for service to Alaska, and asked permission to use the bleak "over the top" route via Tokyo and the China coast to Manila...
Kindly, seamy-faced Major General Oscar W. Griswold, commander of the U.S. Sixth Army's XIV Corps, stood in somber triumph last week on a field of horror. After 20 days of battle, Manila's smoking ruins were...
...from the south drove Major General Verne D. Mudge's ist Cavalry troopers, battering their way through the modern-style apartment houses of the fashionable Ermita district. They fought their way up through the balconied Manila Hotel from the first floor to the penthouse where General Douglas MacArthur once lived...
Leaving forces to reduce the last few Japanese strong points, Major General Griswold's troops turned east from Manila, reached the hill villages of San Isidro and Montalban...