Word: reconquest
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...completeness of the Philippine victory was the relatively low cost of the damage done to the enemy. MacArthur's canny army commanders, General Walter Krueger (boss of the Sixth, on Luzon) and Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger (of the Eighth, in the southern islands), had carried out the reconquest with masterly economy of force. The cost accounting was still incomplete, but the latest compilation (made July 1) showed 11,921 Americans killed in the liberation of the Philippines, 401 missing and 42,569 wounded-a total...
...west coast, from which the Japs had twice launched offensives that reached India's borders, the British had another significant reconquest. They captured Taungup, the port at the end of the Jap supply line. General Slim could sight the end of three years of seesaw campaigns in the Arakan mountains. Of all Burma he could say: "Final victory is near...
...Samar, only 15 miles across San Bernardino Strait, lies Luzon, largest of the Philippine Islands, site of Manila, Bataan and Corregidor. When and if MacArthur chose to cross over to Luzon, he was not likely to find the Japanese the pushovers they were on Leyte. But the reconquest of the Philippines last week seemed much less of a problem than it had the day before his troops poured ashore at Leyte...
There was mud again in Flanders, churned up by last week's heavy rains. The Nazis were putting up stubborn battles for the Channel ports-hopeless, losing battles in which soldiers would die quite as definitively as in glorious victories. In short, the reconquest of the Channel coast was an ugly, thankless job. But the Canadians, whose job it was, were actually happy...
Into the mile-high battle for Tengyueh (Tengchung) on the Burma-Yunnan border, went U.S. Tenth Air Force planes from India to help the Chinese in their stone-by-stone reconquest of the walled city. Near by, U.S. and Chinese engineers literally blew the top off Sungshan Mountain with three tons of TNT. The Japs manning the peak went with it. One more step toward reopening the Burma Road was taken...