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Sunday, March 11th, 4:00-6 p.m.: Harvard-Radcliffe Reception, Phillips Brooks House...
There was the 11th Airborne Division, an outfit new in World War II. The ist Cavalry and the 37th Infantry Divisions were the first and second to get to Manila; the paratroopers came third. Their commander: Major General Joseph M. Swing, West Pointer and onetime artilleryman. North of them, still fighting on the salients driven south and east from Lingayen Gulf and across the base of Bataan from Olongapo, were seven other divisions...
MacArthur announced that the 11th Airborne Division was in action on Leyte; in its first combat, the outfit captured a strategic mountain pass, made a junction with the 7th Division and helped mop up the enemy 26th. There was still bitter fighting to be done, and even after the island was declared secure, there would be hundreds of Japs to be dug out. But the broad strategic objective had been...
...town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...
...white marble Tuscan-Romanesque Cathedral, begun in the 11th Century...