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Reportt On 1h WasidtBy General George C. MarshallA£BhnniaI Report of the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army1943 to 1945f to the Secretary of Warby NKA Serrfc#, !**» la m uratfta wit* U» Wir ITiinrl^iiilThis is the 35th of 42 installments of material selected from General Marshall's report onthe winning of World war II.XXXVPHILIPPINE CONQUESTSGeneral MacArthur had developthe beach, but little fire fro: on the island.o It U nJaps I li fFighting in the tunnels built by j3Americans in an attempt to make 13Corregidor impregnable prior to World war II, the Japs continued ivxavsxvi.their suicidal resistance for nearlyed a strong portion of his assault1 two weeks. Toward the end there 1force on his left or eastern flank jwas a series of terrific explosions °to provide protection for the beach- \on the islands as the Japs dehead against the strong Japanese stroyed the tunnel system and forces to the north and east. themselves with it. Americans seal-In appreciation of the enemy's ^ UP remaining caves and an es-predicament the Sixth army im-|timated 300 Japs. A total of 4,215 mediately launched its advance to- j JaPs were killed on the island, an ward Manila across the bend of; unknown number blown up. Ofpresumably 3,038 Americans who took backthe A g n o whichshould have been a strongly held Corregidor, 136 weroi killed, 8 wereJapanese defense line.The troops met little resistancemissing, and 531 wounded.r.aicdstsgsManila Bay was open in early runtil they approached Clark Field. March. In less than two months iThe I Corps, commanded by Maj. General MacArthur accomplishedGen. Innis P. Swift, had heavy what the Japanese had needed six £fighting on the east flank where to do after Pearl harbor.the Japanese were strongly en- In late February, elements oftrenched in hill positions. For the the Eighth army’s 41st Division af-time being they were to be held lected an unopposed landing atthere to keep, the supply line for th advance on Manila secure.Puerto Princesa, Palawan Island.CCc(The force airstrips and completely fcOn 29 January troops of Gen- occupied Puerto Princesa Penin-1 \eral Hall’s XI Corps under stra-sula. The airfields gave control of|itegic direction of the Eighth army a wide area of the i China Sea landed on the west coast of Luzon greatly facilitating the severancenear Subic Bay, meeting light op- of Japanese communication with position. They drove eastward to Malaysia and Burma.cut off the Bataan peninsula where On 10 March other 41st DivisionGeneral MacArthur had made his troops landed on the western tip stand three years before, denying of Mindanao, second largest islandDivision on opposed am-Naeugbu in south of!the Japanese the use of Manilaharbor for months.The 11th Airborne 31 January made an u phiblous landing at Batangas Province Manila. Three days later the division’s parachute regiment Jumpedto Takaytay ridge dominating the Cavite area. That night troops of the 1st Cavalry Division raced through Novaliches and reached Grace Park in the northeastern portion of the city of Manila. On 6 February the airborne troops reached Nichols Field. As the troope 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 bitterl/ from house to house. Or ganlzed resistance ceased on 23 February when the American infantry penetrated the old walled city.Preceded by heavy air and naval bombardment, elements of the 38th Division landed on 15 February at Mariveles on the tip of Bataan. Resistance was light and our soldiers rapidly advanced along the perimeter road west of Manila Bay. While the battle for the city still raged, MacArthur moved to open Manila Bay and begin preparation of the Philippines as a major base for the next United States advances in the far Pacific.Corregidor RetakenCorregidor had gone under Allied bombardment on 23 January, and in less than a month Kenney s airmen dropped 3,128 tons of bombs on the two and three-fourths square-mile island that controls Manila Bay.On the morning of 16 February, two long trains of Army C-47 transports approached the “Rock, close to the 500-foot sheer cliffs. A sudden 18-mile-an-hour wind sweptthe air clear of the smoke and dustof the naval and air bombardment that had ceased a few minutes earlier. Then the troop carriers began to sow the sky. ’Chutes spilled out white and troops of the veteran503d Parachute Regiments drifteddownward toward the iighttwyra» and golf course on the little island, against scattered small anas fire from the Japs on the ground. Simultaneously, troops of the 34th Infantry Regiment hit the share in assault boats at San Jose SouthDock. They ran into a heavy mineheld covering the entire length ofin the Philippine group. Initial resistance was light and the city of Zamboanga fell the followingtIt3Iitthe NatBY PETNBA Washington9WASHINGTON, D. C.—Therewhich win need a lot of expls and the U. S. Department of State, returned and familiar with what gPiecing togetherchronological stoi Two days after into Thailand—o A month later tl ment to declare x British declared States never acceEdsoning the will of tk In Washington, M. R. Seni Pram country’s declaral izing a Free Tha one Thai student) picked, made officers in the Free Th of Strategic Services—Gen. Wild Bil outfit—for training in guerrilla warMarch, 1943, they were ready to sa make their way into Thailand. Tw other 19 did legion service.;piBST they linked up with the Fr ganized inside the Jap region. T its head was Luang Pradit Mandui nicaliy the Japs' puppet ruler. In C as “Ruth.” The Japs never caughtWhen peace came, a delegation was flown to Lord Louis Mountb) headquarters at Kandy, Ceylon. 1 an army of 20,000 to accept the su forces of occupation.But along with these purely milifcled by Maberley E. ruling Britishbatten, preaepted a set of economicnever been made public. They wqand British terms. Actually, U. S.had never heard of them, aa the 1they backed o£T and asked their AaOn American insistence, the econon time. - ----------THEY were brought up again whe Kandy on Sept 25. Accordingwould have turned their whole cot indefinite time.Negotiations were broken off OdJava, where the British are also haresumed at Singapore Dec. 4, and mA new set of teems
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