Word: plaridel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...covered the operation from a carabao cart, crouching low behind the swaying black rump of a carabao named Plaridel as we drove north from Manila. The sun beat down mercilessly and I wished I had brought a sun helmet. Sometimes I also wished I had brought my gas mask. And I certainly wished I had brought a pillow...
...What do you think Plaridel thinks of right-hand traffic?" I shouted over the din. ."All same," he answered...
...cavalry made it, anyhow, and it was more than their vehicles that turned the trick. At Plaridel (junction of Highways 5 and 3) the 37th piled into 500 Japs entrenched there and full of fight. It took a rousing scrap to kill 250 of them, chase off the rest. As the town was secured the cavalry drove in and rolled on. The Buckeye doughboys jeered them...
Errand of Mercy. If the Japs were set to defend Manila like Plaridel, there was trouble ahead-and the greatest danger to thousands of Allied civilians interned in Manila's prison camps. The high command was ready for that...
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