Word: xxiv
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. sent the seasoned troops of his new Tenth Army swarming ashore. Marines and soldiers fought side by side in this army, as they had in World War I's famed 2nd Division. Comprising the army were Major General John R. Hodge's XXIV Army Corps and Major General Roy S. Geiger's III Marine Amphibious Corps...
Major General John R. Hodge, commanding the XXIV Corps (7th and 96th Divisions), called the fighting the fastest in the Pacific war, observed that "the Japs will run if they have a place to run to ... they are running in all di rections." Jap pillboxes were flimsily constructed. When Lieut. General Shiro Ma-kino's 16th Division men counterattacked, they came not in overpowering thousands, but in driblets of 50 to 200 men who were easily mowed down by machine-gun fire...
...northern (right flank) landing on the eastern shore, pushed inland after capturing the capital city of Tacloban, where Philippines President Sergio Osmeña promptly set up his provisional capital. Then Sibert's troops fanned out along the north coast, and southward to join Hodge's XXIV Corps, which was moving north from Burauen after driving inland from their beachhead...
...critics charged: 1) that "you can prove anything you want to prove by the Bible"; 2) that he had plucked his texts from the militaristic Old Testament and glossed over the New; 3) that he had skipped the Old Testament's direst precedent against registration-II Samuel XXIV, wherein King David ordered a military census. It showed a count of 1,300,000 "valiant men that drew the sword" but the Lord, wroth at David, punished his presumption by killing 70,000 of them with pestilence in three days...