European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By supplement the staks and stripes Evte Battle marked me fighting by the associated press spectacular Battles of Luzon stand in the Public mind engagements to americas recon quest of the Philippines chronicle the Battle Lor the once obscure Island of Lete Victory of Macarthur triumphant the names which were burned into american memories Muul Corregidor but Leyte was the Battleground Oil which japanese military gambled their stakes and the time the troops of Walter Kru Egors we Toul army lasted at lingayen m the steady american army Navy planes had air supremacy the v Power was Stilt Strong curing the Leyte Campaign to the fall the japanese still air and sea the were a Leto pour or More reinforce into the or Noc corridor to a serious but futile threat after three Kuffour american divisions had swept Forward in the first three weeks any Strong the weather Long had smiled upon Macarthur s Sou in it Tabt Pacific deserted him on the Rains came m to torn the Island into a american mechanized bogged Down in the drive against the heavily reinforced in the Oroc across the i islands mountainous Knieger forces finally smashed the enemy by pushing one division ass Island far to the South and Landing another behind the enemy Oroc by the Luzon drive moved with Choc like precision to the main strategic of the Central e of Manila arid reopening of Manila weather was favor roads were Good and american mechanized Power could be fully in a War of h1 there were More japanese troops on Luzon than there Ever were to but the sprawling size of Luion made it necessary for the japanese to spread Over vast air supremacy enabled our planes Ito wast communications and Supply lines cripple japanese attempts move troops whether or not the japanese were surprised at the Choice of Only the enemy and his officers it seems certain that they were caught by Surprise by Choice of Landing beaches in the on the northerly where there was firm land in from the the japanese artillery was Macar Statts Choice was the Southern where marshes and to tace paddies stretched Inland from the it was a Gamble that americans landed with Small losses and started their push Down the 120mile Plains route toward Krueger swung Strong forces to the North and Northeast to prevent enemy push from the japanese mechanized strength was wiped out soon afterwards to toe fou Day Battle of san two major to South Yat the end of two additional major landings drove prongs Jato the enemy to the the near Subic site of a former Navy was to close off Bataan and prevent the japanese from to the Jungle Peninsula for a last it was followed promptly by a Landing the South of Manila Bay at a Sumbu for a drive on Manila from Tae with the Aid of a Para Tapper jump on tag Aytay Ridge to further confuse the harried first cavalry motorized fling column broke into Manila the of feb 3 to relieve hungry but deliriously Happy Santo Tomas the 37th division entered Manila the next Day from the North Fra the filth airborne from the after cracking Strong Emp lace near Battle for the burning capital City was As a vengeful enemy and burned the jewel of the Orient Macarthur had tried in 1941 declaring it an open three destructive weeks flowed1 last enemy stronghold in the totally wrecked Flatow euros old walled City was the total japanese Manila was estimated at Corregidor the next morning the japanese were caught by As the paratroopers jumped onto the rocks topside and battalion from the 24th division assaulted a heavily mined Beach at base of the Tunnel famed and seized the ghost the Philippines the guerilla and a Friendly were of inestimable while the cleanup the Macarthur command looked Hie five Star general who came Back sounded the keynote 0n to Tokyo by by a stall correspondent when the japanese Inton sized their Effort to drag China bodily into their so called greater Asia  in few people in the world held much Hope that the backward nation of the Orient could Long already the Imperial armies of Nippon had seized Manchuria to and by 1935 had taken five of chivas Northern it they vere to chop up and devour the rest of the stricken using what they called the China alleged attack by chinese soldiers on near Marco Polo Bridge outside piping on july their excuse for renewed Hirohito troops jumped off and encountered Little difficulty in overrunning most of Northern Shanghai attack United nation the chinese served notice that this time the National government would fight to the utmost when Chiang Kaish eks men defended the important port City fell after a three month for nearly a year and a half severe fighting with heavy casualties on both with the fall of the lower Yangtze River Valley in the chinese abandoned a used defense of cities and towns and began the Long War of movement and attrition which amazed the world and constituted one of the most heroic chapters of world War Chiang moved his government 8w Miles up the Yangtze to where it has remained and his recognizing their hopeless inferior Ity a artillery and All other types of modern Battle equipment restricted themselves to cutting japanese striking at outlying garrisons and conducting harassing the tactics and Success of the chinese guerrilla fighters became almost by the time of the attack on Pearl the Jap anese had succeed in occupying chivas largest cities and 10 of the country most Fertile by capturing All of chivas main ports they effectively Cut the country off from substantial Aid from the outside they dominated roughly on fourth of the country and approximately on half of the even though an estimated chinese had fled before the in vaders to the China has had internal obstacles to overcome which have been Al As difficult As her military been split for 10 years before the japanese ass Silt in with Arnod clashes occur tag the forces of the the government part of and the Independent armies of the chinese communist Only in the face of the common danger was a1 United front agree ment shortly before the Jap with the communists agreeing to plaice themselves under Chianos leadership for Tae Pur poses of resisting the the chinese have paid the same sort of Price i to continue resistance that they have paid in blood and prices have risen Witk clothing and other essentials now Selling for As much As Jim times their Cost before the that the world recognizes China s great sacrifices and her contribution to the Victory Over aggression is evidenced in she is slated to play to the at in a joint Declara Tion was issued by presi Dent Roosevelt prime minister Churchill which assures China her rightful place among the great nations of the As the Leader of an Asia last at Taliak memorial Drew one of world Conquest in 1927 the world Learned of the presumably written by Premier Tanaka on his count jays Lon term the document frankly announced japans desires to conquer the beginning with Manchuria and then the rest of Europe and United Japan never acknowledged its but followed it As years by associated press Oft i merely was the first act la the gruelling drama of the so Omott a year of dirty Jungle fighting Lay ahead before the american Flag waa to Fly Over All the Chain thai pointed Northwest toward japans i Advance base at new flee russells within Days after Guadalcanal marines under William Halsey moved 20 mites North into the Russell the japanese had fled from the tiny Coral once a whistle Stop on their Tokyo the american name for the Fleet the japs use to try to slip men and supplies into four months on june yanks and australians quickly the enemy Garrison of Northwest of the Aad then leaped narrow neck of water eastward to invade new the japanese attempt j ing to crush further Allied was soundly in two july 56 and in Kula Gulf to the take Ai drome Halsey circled two pincers to Ward the coveted Munda air in 35 on the Aird orae was Only monotonous mopping up remained new the yanks then turned North to the corp signs most promising largest of the on Rabaul pausing to take the Treasury Mono and stir Southern Bougainville defences to push ashore 1 at Empress Augusta Bay hallway up its Western coast another typical Jungle engage and but by when new zealand Era landed on the Little Green islands just off Dougain Villes North the Battle Lor the Solomons for All strategic military Bougainville vital bases were in Allied and some japanese in the islands were Cut off from to by the associated Douglas new Campaign lasted More than it was in that Lush Green 1 on by the allies drive Back to the Japan made Many of the poll stakes thai Cost her an late summer of landed at Milne Bay on Southeast but enemy found allies at Milne Bay than he resent to a Convoy of to take off what troops that same Convoy could sufficient reinforce made Victory certain i the japanese made another mis take in the fall of pushed a comparative handful of australians Back to within 32 Miles of port and when Little stood Between them and the Dusty Hills of that key Only a few Miles from Australia Northern they pulled Back instead of sending in though men to do the never again did they Tafee the offensive to new americans and austra lians won Bwana and slaughtering the japanese garrisons almost to the last they stopped the japanese and secured new air Fields for air inferiority in weapon Sand sup faithfully As Hitler plies the nation had program outlined in mein i july historic by the press for the first time the american warships steamed boldly off the coast of Japan july and poured shells Lute Industrial installations on presidential Lawn rated mortar get ready to lob shells into enemy a Ballpark became an enemy yank cavalrymen outside the stadium fire a of Pooka through a Bole in firing