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city of Manila. On 6 February the airborne troops reached Nichols Pleld. As the troops of the Sixth Army closed on Manila from the north, northwest and south, the situation of Japanese forces in the city was rendered hopeless but they fought bitterly from house to house. Organized resistance ceased on 23 February when the American infantry penetrated the old walled city. . » » PRECEDED BY heavy air and naval bombardment, elements of the Division landed on 15 February at Mariveles on the tip of

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vision met a fanatical enemy in mountain ranges between Baguio and Balete Pass. East of Manila, infantry fought for ‘long weeks across successive, bitterly contested mountain ridges. Other elements cleared the area .|south of Laguna de Bay and advanced along the highway the Bicol Peninsula. On 1 reinforced combat team landed Legaspi in southeast Luzon, With the help of guerrillas,

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Bataan. Resistance was light and

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the perimeter road west of Manila Bay. While the battle for the city still raged, MacArthur moved to open Manila Bay and begin preparation

killed, eight were missing and 531 wounded. Manila Bay was open in early March. In less than two months Gen. MacArthur accomplished what the Japanese had needed six to do after Pearl Harbor.

force cleared the southeast top of the island then moved northward toward our other troops advancing from Luzon. In mid-April, with the campaign in the Visayas drawing to a close, Gen. Eichelberger sent the X Corps | of his Eighth Army ashore on Cen- |

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"until they approached Clark Field. _3The 1 Corps, commanded by Maj. #0en. Innis P. Swift, had heavy fighting on the east flank where the Japanese were strongly entrenched in hill positions. For the time being they were to be held there to keep the supply line for the advance on Manila secure. » » =n tr ON 29 JANUARY troops of Gen.

of the Philippines as a major base tral Mindanao north of Cotabato. | t . =» for the next United States advances ” y ¥ . |

in the far Pacific. IN LATE February, elements of boanga Corregidor had gone under allied| the Eighth Army's 4ist Division ay Se amon in ares bombardment on 23 January, and) effected ‘an unopposed landing at| "or 1arce areas in Northern | in less than a month Kenney's| Puerto Princesa, Palawan Island. Mindanao. Driving eastward to] airmen dropped 3128 tons of bombs| The force captured the town with | "0s “incantry of the 24th | on the two and three-fourths|its two airstrips and completely oc- Division, X Corps, took Davao City | square-mile island that controls|cupied Puerto Princesa Peninsula. =~," \r.u "after house-to-house | L Manila bay, The airfields gave control of a wide fighting. A column of the 31st Di- || On the morning of 16 February, area of the China Sea greatly vision drove north up the valley > two long trains of army C-47 trans- | facilitating the severance of Japa- |, = Pulangi River to Kibawe. Mean- | ports approached the “Rock,” close nese communication with Malaysia|yy on Luzon, the important city ||

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A sudden 18-mile-an-hour wind swept the air clear of the smoke and dust of the naval and air

few minutes earlier. Then the troop carriers began to sow the sky. ‘Chutes spilled out white and troops of the veteran 503d parachute regiments drifted downward toward the lighthouse and golf course on the little island, against scattered small

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. = =» SIMULTANEOUSLY, troops of the 34th infantry regiment hit the

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troops landed ori the western tip of Mindanao, second largest island in the Philippine group. Initial resistance was light and the city of Zamboanga fell the following day; but heavy fighting followed in the foothills’ and continued for weeks. Landings were made during March on Panay, Cebu, and Negros. Reconnaissance parties went ashore on Jolo, Hawitawi and other islands in the Sulu Archipelago, extending our holdings to within 40 miles of Borneo. In each case the landings were

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CHINA EMPLOYS AXIS PERSONNEL |

Neglects Skills of Shanghai’s Anti-Nazi Refugees. ||

By WILLIAM H. NEWTON Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

SHANGHAI - Dec. 25. — Almost |i

bankrupt for technical and profes- || sional skills, China is employing ||

personnel of Axis countries to help || . rebuild her econamy after eight ||

years of war,

Thousands of Jap technicians are || employed in factories, government ||

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Germans, many of them avowed ||| Nazis, also are being taken on by ||f

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