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...Luzon Major General Leonard F. Wing's 43rd ("Winged Victory") Division, onetime New England National Guard outfit, surged forward to smash the southern end of the "Shimbu Line" system of caves, trenches and concrete fortifications 15 miles east of Manila...
...Lingayen Gulf lay the others, widening their holdings, cheering and envying the lucky outfits that had got to Manila. They were the 6th Division, the 25th ("Tropic Lightnings"), the 32nd (National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin), the 40th (National Guardsmen from California, Nevada, Utah and New York), and the 43rd (National Guardsmen from New England...
...Japs had big guns emplaced. Though some of these were knocked out, the enemy clung stubbornly to pillboxes and other fixed defenses. Most of the 1,017 Americans announced as killed in the first three weeks of the campaign had died in this sector, where the 43rd Division (Major General Leonard F. Wing) and the 158th Regimental Combat Team (Brigadier General Hanford MacNider) were fighting...
...three-star generals in Marine Corps history. The others: ex-Commandant (now Minister to South Africa) Thomas Holcomb, and present Commandant Alexander Archer Vandegrift. * At least three other Army divisions in the Pacific have had their commanders relieved in mid-battle: the 32nd (Buna), the 7th (Attu), the 43rd (New Georgia-the latter two by admirals...
...studious officer, he took Army courses and taught them, became a crack instructor at the Infantry School, Fort Benning, served as chief of staff of the 43rd Infantry Division. He volunteered for airborne service in 1942 and speedily won the respect of the paratroopers who had goggled at his stature...