The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 23, 1945, Page 4

nin me eat encanta ec Pee aaa NEREEe PAGE FOUR JAPANESE LOST BIGGEST GAMBLE IN INVASION BATTLE ON LEYTE — el DECISIVE VICTORY: OF ‘Mrs. Crusoe And, ~ GEN. DOUGLAS ‘MacAR- THUR’S RETURN TO PHILIPPINES By JAMES HUTCHESON Newsfeatures While the spectacular of Luzon stand in the mind as the major en- ents in America’s re- west of the Philippines, wians will chronicle the ie for the once obscure id of Leyte as the deci- in-law in New York. troops freely. #ive victory of Gen. Douglas beaches'in the gulf. which were burned into Leyte as the battleground on gambled their biggest stakes &nd lost. ie iH Gen. Walter Krueger’s pow- erful Sixth Army landed at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, on m. 9, 1945, the steady lows of American Army @nd Navy planes had won the supremacy throughout islands. +, Enemy Power Still Strong During the Leyte campaign in fall of 1944, the Japanese still air and sea power. They were pour 50,000 or more rein- ts into the Ormoc cor- in a_ serious but futile Sent after three or four Ameri- an divisions had swept forward ig the first three weeks without @my strong challenge. {MacArthur kept his “I shall re- turn” promise, made in Australia March, 1942 by wading ashore Leyte with the liberating “But his timetable there suffer- @@ a severe setback when only @he small airfild could be put in- to operation in the first weeks. air superiority was lost for the first time since the push ®erth from the Solomons: and Mew Guinea started. Even the weather gods, who long had smiled upon MacArthur's Southwest Pacific operations, de- gerted him on Leyte. The rains fame in torrents to turn the island into a quagmire. American mechanized equipment. bogged down in the drive against the heavily reinforced Japanese in the Ormoc corridor, across the igland’s mountainous backbone. Luton Campaign Like Clock-Work ‘Ly contrast; the Luzon‘ drive with ‘clock-like precision the main ‘strategic objec- tives — conquest of the central Pains, capture of Manila and re- Opening of Manila Bay. Weather was favorable, roads were good amd American mechanized power could be utilized fully in a war of maneuver. There were more Japanese troops on Luzon than theer ever were on Leyte, but the sprawling size of Luzon made it necessary for the Japanese to spread over Vast areas. Air supremacy en- @bled our planes to blast com- Munications and supply lines and INSECT SPRAY It Kills When Others Fail On Sale at Drug and Grocery Stores hur’s triumphant re-} Luzon held the names American memories—Man-|, Ma rm sector, where marshes dora, e ila, Bataan, Corregidor but ind rice paddies stretched inland sas , from the beach, It was a gamble which the Japanese military |)).4 paid off. was trained. The Americans jlanded with small losses and 'started their speedy push down ~ By the time the troops of/the 120-mile plains route toward | Manila. | The defensive strategy of Yam- ashita.isn’t clear. His ‘tactics boil- ed down to a series of delaying actions! ee He may have realized his Luzon goose was cooked, and chose de. laying tactics as the ~only possi bility; while. tryimg..to pull’ his to’the nérh ‘and northeast to pre- vent any enemy push from the flanks. Japanese ,Strength was virtually wiped out ;soon afterward in the four-day battle of San Manuel. Two Major Landings In South At the end of January, two ad- ditional major landings drove Daughter Return Mrs. Hilary Crusoe and daugh- ter, Helen, have returned to the city after visiting her son, who is in the U. S. Navy, and daughter-} © ARR EGILS aicrtstiviss EOEaRAR ARES ES By cripple Japanese attempts to move Whether or not the Japanese ere surprised at the choice of ingayen, only the enemy com- {mander, Gen. Yamashita, and his officers could say, but it seems’ certain that they were caught by surprise by the choice: of landing On the northerly shore, where there was firm land in*ftom the beaches, the Japanese artillery MacArthur’s choice was the trgops northward, jn.the moun- taif¢ an FeehYa Panes ! Krueg un¥*'strong forces ;the peak. Pfc. Benjamin Adams, The above photograph is of two local boys who proud- ly blazed the name of “Key West Conch’ from the U.S.A. through Scotland, England, France, Belgium, Germany and Czechoslovakia, Cpl. Charles F. Flowers, driver, and istant driver, who were mobiliz- ed with the Key West National Guard, January 194}. formation reveals that all during the campaign of Germany and Czechoslovakia, Cpl. Flowers and Pfc. Adams were serving with Batiery C, 656th Field Artillery Bn., an 8” Howitzer outfit attached to V Corps, U. S. First Army. In- 38th Division landing unopposed at Mariveles, on the tip of Ba- taan across the channel from Corregidor, On Corregidor the next morn- ing the Japanese were caught by ‘surprise as the 503rd paratroopers jumped onto The Rock’s topside and a_ battalion from the 24th Division assaulted a heavily min- led beach at the base of Malinta, |the tunne]-famed hill, and seized MacArthur later reported that the force of 3,038 Americans kill- tin the first 10 days of bitter fight- ing. Rapid-Fire Landings As ‘the campaign against the, remaining Japanese: on Luzon ‘moved in the mountains, en- | |prongs into the enemy to the countering amazing systems of south. The first, near Subic Bay,'cayes and tunnels, Lt. Gen. Rob- was to close off Bataan and pre-'army took over the big job of jvent the Japanese from with-'retaking the central and southern |drawing to the jungled peninsula islands. for a last stand. Eichelberger launched a series |, It was followed promptly by @ of rapid-fire landings, starting \landing to the south of Manila‘ with small islands in the ship- |Bay at Nasugbu for a drive on |ping.channel south of Luzon and Manila from the south, with the Pains to the southern tip of site of a former U. S. Navy base, 'ert L, Eichelberger’s new Eighth | aid of a paratrooper jump on Tagaytay ridge to further con- fuse the harried Japanese. The First Cavalry’s motorized flying column broke into Manila the night of Feb. 3 to relieve hungry but d@liriously happy ;Santo Tomas internees. The 37th Division entered Manila’ the next day from the north and the 11th crackinging strong emplacements near Cavite. 3 The; battle \for the burhing capital city was on, as a venge- ful enemy._blasted _and._burne “the jewel of the Orient” which MacArthur had tried to spare in 1941 by declaring it an open city. Three destructive weeks jfollowed before the last enemy stronghold in the totally wreck- ed Intramuros (old waled city) was eliminated. The total Japa- nese Manila garrison was es- timated at 20,000. Paralleling the fight for Man- ila, the first blow to open the STRAND ‘THEATER FRANCES LANGFORD in “GIRL RUSH” Coming: ‘Miracle of Morgan's Creek’ MONROE THEATER SIDNEY GREENSTREET in “Mask of Dimitrios” Coming: “Uncertain Glory” a Shop For Your Sunday Dinner at ARCHER’S THERE IS NO LIMIT ON VEAL - BEEF - LAMB ROASTERS and FRYERS Make up your shopping list now—bring it to Archer's. Our really wide selection of food products will surprise you. Plan to restock your pantry shelves completely. We have a NICE selection of FROSTED FOODS Customers are not obligated to buy groceries to get Our Meats Archer’s “The Store That 814 FLEMING ST. Grocery Serves You Best” PHONES 67 and 47 Airborne from the south, after |, \the archipelago. 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