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...veteran 37th Division, under a confident Ohio National Guardsman, Major General Robert S. Beightler, drove 22 miles in 24 hours, captured Santiago, then pushed on 15 miles more. To the west, Brig. General Charles E. Hurdis' 6th Division swept up the Japanese trying to escape on Highway...
...37th trained in the heat of the deep South and practiced jungle combat in the Fiji Islands. In the summer of 1943 it landed on New Georgia for its baptism of fire. There the 43rd Division had been fighting a grisly campaign to seize Munda airfield. Men lived in foxholes where infiltrating Japanese sometimes found them and fought them with knives and bare hands...
...August before the 37th and the 43rd (New England National Guard) could report the airfield secured...
Three months later the 37th went ashore on Bougainville for more of the same, at the beachhead established by the 3rd Marine Division at Empress Augusta Bay. There, with the Americal Division (the only U.S. division without a number), the 37th successfully held an area of dank jungle against a desperate enemy...
Thirteen months later, the 37th landed with MacArthur in Lingayen Gulf to begin the race south for Manila. In three days it covered 50 miles. On its flank raced the spectacular ist Cavalry, rolling on wheels. Beightler swore: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those feather merchants beat us in." Through a mid-morning mist the 37th saw Manila at last. The ist Cavalry, plunging ahead to liberate Santo Tomas, did beat them in, but it was the 37th which paddled across the Pasig River to seize the old walled Intramuros...