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LiuzonFightWonMop-Up in Mindanao Only Job Left to Complete Liberation of Philippine IslandsBy SPENCER DAVISManila, June 28. (AP) — American and Filipino forces have won* the campaign for mountainous North Luzon,“one of the most savage and bitterly fought in American history,” to completely liberate this biggest island in the Philippines, Gen. DouglasMac Arthur announced today.His triumphant communique added conquest of the 200-mile-longCagayan Valley In 28 days as theconclusive chapter of an operation which:Began Jan. 9 at Lingayan Gulf, swept down 125 miles to Manila in 28 days; freed that shell-shattered city only after three weeks of battling in its rubbled streets; reclaimed hallowed Bataan peninsula; and reopened Manila Bay by paratroop-amphibious Invasion of Corregidor. End In Junction A Junction Tuesday in the Cagayan Valley of the U. S. 37th Ohio infantry divsion, which entered it May 31 from the south, and the 11th airborne division, which had parachuted into the north end near Aparri. wound up “the major phase of the northern Luzon campaign ”“No terrain has ever presented greater logistical difficulties and none has ever produced an adversary with more naturally impregnable strongholds,” MacArthur said “The losses inflicted on the enemy (in all north Luzon) were heaw — 113,593 dead, with the graves of many other thousands located but uncounted, and several thousand prisoners. Our losses were 3,193 dead, 34 missing and 11.351 wounded, a total of 15,178.Entire Island Liberated Our troops comprised the first corps and the north Luzon guerrillas. all of the Sixth army, closely and. most effectively supported by far eastern air force and the Seventh fleet.*Tne entire island of Luzon, embracing 40,420 square miles. . . isnow liberated.”In effect, MacArthur wrote off the Philippines reinvasion, wh’ch began last October at Leyte. The only other active sector is the oth?r active sector is the southern island of Mindanao, and today’s communique phrased operations there by the eighth army as a mop-up of a disorganized foe.
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Iola Register
Iola, Kansas, US
Thu, Jun 28, 1945
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