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...Corregidor and swept a channel into Mariveles harbor, at the southern tip of Bataan. Landing craft followed them. The first wave got off lightly; the next waves were less fortunate. But the Japs were disorganized. Within a few hours a junction was made near Lamao with the 1st Infantry Regiment. Bataan was sealed...
...Americans struck again. Below Manila, in Batangas Province and closest to the U.S.'s lost naval base at Cavite, seaborne elements of the nth Airborne Division drove ashore two days after the landing above Olongapo. As they bored toward the city, part of their 511th Regiment dropped down from the sky ahead of the advance, took Tagaytay Ridge overlooking Manila from the south. Meanwhile the 37th Division and the cavalry, were within striking distance of the capital...
...task force of Mudge's troopers, under Brigadier General William Curtis Chase, swung wide into the foothills flanking Manila. At 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3 (25 days after the landing at Lingayen), the 2nd Squadron of the historic 8th Regiment burst into the city from the east. So the 1st Cavalry Division had won the race-and not even the Buckeyes could say there was no justice in the fact: the 1st had sworn to strike a blow for their onetime brigade commander, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, now in Jap hands. This...
...paying me for." The record of his tours of duty is as unglamorous as it is long; in World War I, though he got to France, he saw no action. In one thing he takes pride: he has commanded, in relentless progression, a squad, a platoon, a company, a regiment, a brigade, a division, a corps and an army. He dislikes the lofty impersonality forced on him by his present duty-"Hell, I'd rather have a regiment." Now, he says, "I don't do much except think a lot, scold a little...
That was Rundstedt's first upset. The second was the heroic refusal of the 101st Airborne to be overrun at Bastogne. The Americans' northern peg held firm when a regiment of one of the overrun divisions refused to give ground and enabled First Army divisions to the north to wheel in on that flank...