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192 - 'The Angels', The 11th Airborne Division

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The Battle of Manila

Eichlberger and swing very much wanted to beat Magartha's first calf, cavalry division, which was coming in from the north into Manila. So they landed on the west coast and then they but imagine it is an L shape basically they pushed in from the beach and then went straight up into Manila. They had brought in some doos and half cargo trucks and some jeeps. A lot of the vehicles though were stuck out in the in the surf because they had there was a sandbar that they had not caught.

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