Word: pampanga
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Johnny Jones & Others. One morning at dawn as last week began, 56 ships stood off Lingayen Gulf, gateway to the broad, fertile Pampanga plain leading south 120 miles between mountain ranges toward Manila. Long strategists' pick for the deadly thrust, Lingayen was heavily defended. But the Jap moved in, attempting landings on a stretch from Lingayen northward. A heavy U.S. force under Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright was waiting...
...week's end, the drive from Lingayen Gulf had been stopped and the front was stabilized. The Jap was not yet in force in Pampanga plain. Filipino and U.S. soldiers agreed that he was going to have a hell of a time entrenching himself there, a still tougher time moving south. As on the road from Baguio, the hills still hemmed him in in all his forward positions, and the country is rough, tough and thorny...