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...troops had al ready taken, could see without going farther what Manila had suffered, foresee what it was going to suffer. This was a city of desperate hunger. It was also a city destined to more destruction. The demolition charges of the Japs already thundered south of the Pasig and tall columns of black smoke had begun to rise (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
There was still more to be seen in the streets as the staff party visited the Presidential residence, Malacanan Palace. Then Douglas MacArthur stopped for a glass of beer at San Miguel brewery; after that he headed for the front, toward the smoke-shrouded Pasig River...
...illusory. The enemy, it appeared, had not flatly lied when he boasted that the city was being fortified for resistance block by block, building by building; he had merely told a half-truth. It was not true in the northern sector of Manila, on the right bank of the Pasig River; it was all too true of the southern sector, on the left bank...
Fanned by a stiff wind from the Bay, the flames drove the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 148th Infantry (part of Ohio's 37th Division ) back from the Pasig River. The flames licked around Bilibid Prison, forcing evacuation of hundreds of civilian internees. All night the city was wreathed in fire. Next morning, as the sun burned coppery red through the pall of smoke, the two battalions of the 148th picked their way through debris and embers to the Pasig again...
Although the city was almost completely blacked out, the pilots, flying in at 3,000 feet, could see targets in the brilliant moonlight-piers against the light-flooded bay, the central part of the city flanking the Pasig River. Fortunately the pilots were friendly, the targets make-believe, the blackout a mere practice. But just the same this occasion last week was grim. This was the first simulated blackout of a city under the U.S. flag which seriously fears it may soon be bombed. The city: Manila...