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Rolling In High. On the road to Manila, the Jap was still fading backward faster than any U.S. optimist had dared to hope. Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps swept ahead, the 37th (Ohio) Division under Major General Robert S. Beightler on the left, and the 40th under Major General Rapp Brush on the right. With its flank protected by the Buckeyes, the 40th rolled into Clark Field in time for General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to announce its capture on his 65th birthday. With more than a dozen runways, Clark was the greatest air base...
Thus the enemy revealed another part of his intention: not to risk any large part of his forces until it was clear whether General MacArthur planned other landings. There were two natural bottlenecks between Clark Field and Manila where small Jap forces could hold. And Manila itself, the Japs trumpeted, was being fortified street by street. The real battle for Luzon was not over; it simply had not begun...
Unknown Toll. Last week, reconnaissance units of the 40th Division advancing on Manila came to Camp O'Donnell. The Japs had moved their troops out the day before, after putting the torch to the buildings. The last of the Filipino prisoners had been moved out a year earlier, and no man knew how many had died. A Filipino colonel put the number...
Only 54 miles ahead was Manila. There, in the old officers' club more than 40 years ago, a second lieutenant of engineers and a second lieutenant of infantry had first met: West Point's distinguished graduate Douglas MacArthur and Cincinnati Technical High School's Walter Krueger...
Slower & Surer. G.I.s of the Sixth Army, fighting south from Lingayen toward the captive capital of the Philippines, hoped to give Manila to MacArthur and Krueger as a joint birthday present this week. (On Jan. 26 MacArthur will be 65, Krueger 64.) But the G.I.s probably were in too much of a hurry. Methodical, plodding Krueger was in a hurry, but not too much. He did not believe in capturing territory in haste, only to lose it at the enemy's leisure. Strategically, he was out on the end of a limb-a tenuous supply line, 950 miles long...