On 23 June a para troop force of the 11th Airborne Division dropped just south of Aparrl. This force drove 25 miles southward during the next three days to establish contact with forward elements of the 37th Division.The seizure of the Cagayan Valley virtually terminated the campaign in Luzon, though sizable pockets of desperate Japanese remained to be eliminated. In the liberation of the Philippine Islands, General MacArthur’s armies had killed by that time 317,000 and captured 7,238 Japanese against a 17. S. casualty figure of approximately 60,628 killed, wounded, and missing.On l July Australian forces