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Neither Madrid nor Stalingrad nor Cassino had the elements of this fantastic fight for Intramuros . . ." And still another comes from Bob Sherrod, veteran of New Guinea and Attu, of Tarawa and Saipan, who landed with the Marines on Iwo Jima : "Shortly before we hit the beach three mortar shells dropped in the water beyond us, but the Higgins boat crunched on the shore and without even getting our feet wet we ran up the steep beach and started digging in. ... That first night can only be described as a nightmare in hell. The Japs rained heavy mortars and rockets...
Mucci's men were a tough breed. Formerly they had been a pack field artillery unit whom Mucci himself had trained as combat troops two years ago in New Guinea. Mucci was a West Pointer, son of a Bridgeport, Conn, horse dealer. In command of his Filipinos: Major Robert Lapham, who had been fighting with the guerrillas since before the fall of Corregidor. Mucci's force had suffered some casualties: three wounded, 27 killed...
...came back as he had promised, through 4,000 miles-and 35 months. Far behind now lay the bitter campaign across New Guinea, the dashing leapfrog drive along the 1,500-mile north coast. Still fresh in the memory of his soldiers was the landing in force on Leyte, the swift lancing drive to Mindoro and Marinduque, the dazzling, varied attack that had baffled and finally paralyzed the Jap on Luzon...
There were the 24th and 38th Divisions of Lieut. General Robert L. Eichelberger's new Eighth Army, both on the Bataan salient. The 24th, commanded by slim, handsome Major General Frederick Augustus Irving, sprang from an old square division in Hawaii. The 24th had been blooded on New Guinea and Leyte. The 38th was the "Cyclone Division" of the Indiana-Kentucky-West Virginia National Guards. Many of its officers had been businessmen; its commander was a regular, Major General Henry L. C. Jones...
...have been in New Guinea for a period in excess of 30 days...