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...mile trip to Mount Rainier. Mist hung low as the President's car moved up through the foothills, crossed a river at the foot of Nisqually Glacier. But as he drove higher between high snow walls, the sun came out and the 14,000-ft. peak above them hung dazzling white against a blue mountain sky. At Paradise Valley, 5,400 feet above sea level, the President threw snowballs, stared at the heights through glasses, went into sprawling Paradise Inn to play a few pieces on the piano...
...Yaeju Peak itself, a 560-ft. knob which doughboys dubbed "the Big Apple," was first scaled at night by Company K of the 381st Infantry (96th Division). Explosive charges sealed off a number of caves, but Company K was forced to retire. Before noon the next day, U.S. artillery and mor tars took more bites out of the Big Apple, and Companies I and L tried the ascent...
From Yaeju, the 383rd Infantry jumped off and took Yuza Peak. To the east, the 7th Division was battling for a summit 502 feet high when the enemy gave an assist. Jap artillery shelled Jap troops at the top. When the error was dis covered, and the fire lifted, the Japs on the peak were stunned and the 7th Division veterans were able to swarm all over them...
...seen the death of a King (George V), the abdication of another (Edward VIII), and the coronation of a third (George VI). It had seen Britain at its moral ebb (Munich and the days of appeasement), at the brink of disaster (Dunkirk and the blitz) and at the peak of its moral resurgence (when for more than a year Britain stood single-handed against the might of German-dominated Europe). In the end it had celebrated a tremendous military victory. It had endured bombardment (twelve hits on the Parliament buildings) and mourned the loss of 18 members killed in armed...
Borneo was ripe for MacArthur's attention, for on the Philippines the campaign had settled down to a hard, patient mop-up in the dreary mud of the rainy season. On Mindanao U.S. troops worked slowly toward Mount Apo, highest peak in the Islands, where retreating Japs melted back into the brushy, green slopes. North on Luzon opposition was lighter, and Sixth Army forces were able to poke a long, strong finger deep into the Cagayan Valley where some 20,000 of General Tomoi-juki Yamashita's troops were cornered. Explained one grinning, bowing Jap prisoner: "Yamashita...