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By Douglas Larsen
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Jap losses near 100,000 on Luzon
‘Bitterest fighting’ rages in Manila
MANILA, Philippines (UP) – Jap forces fought back savagely from a shrinking pocket in Southern Manila today against U.S. flamethrowers and heavy artillery.
Jap casualties in the Luzon campaign neared the 100,000 mark.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said the “bitterest fighting” had developed as the American infantrymen slowly compressed the enemy lines. Big guns maintained a steady bombardment of the ancient wall around the Intramuros sector.
The last-stand death battles waged by the Japs was taking a heavy toll of the enemy forces. A communiqué reported that Jap casualties in the first six weeks of the Luzon campaign exceeded 92,000. In that same period, the American casualties totaled 2,676 dead, 10,008 wounded and 245 missing – a ratio of seven-to-one over the enemy.
Japs loot city
As the trapped Japs faced almost certain death in their holdout positions below the Pasig River, they let loose an orgy of sadism and destruction on Filipino civilians and property.
The communiqué officially disclosed that the Japs were “acting with the greatest savagery in the treatment of non-combatants and private property.”
A survey showed that almost all private possessions of Filipinos were looted thoroughly during the enemy occupation and apparently taken to Japan.
Mop up on Corregidor
In the battle around Intramuros, the Japs were reported increasing automatic and heavy weapon fire in a desperate attempt to halt the Americans who lopped off another block from the southern side of the pocket.
On Corregidor, bombers and fighters joined with infantrymen and paratroopers in cleaning out the Japs from the island’s rocky recesses.
Seek ventilating holes
Demolition squads and flamethrower units were searching the top of Malinta Hill for ventilating holes leading to the famed Malinta tunnel, where the Japs were believed making their major stand.
Explosive charges and fiery bursts from the flamethrowers down the ventilating shafts could end Jap resistance inside the tunnel quickly.
Strong forces of heavy and medium bombers again hit Formosa, plastering Takao airdrome and setting fire to factory buildings and oil storage tanks.
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