Combat Bulletin No. 33 / [videorecording]

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[Transcription]: Mid-November on Leyte. Elements of the Twenty-Fourth Infantry Division, Major General Frederick Irving commanding, advance towards mountain positions, dominating the Ormoc Road. By the fourth week of the New Philippines Campaign, the stubborn enemy is contained in a valley corridor. The valley is threaded by the north-south highway running from Tinamapuan to Ormoc. Ormoc is the key western port, used by the Japs as a tunnel for reinforcements. Snipers and mortars ran to every foot of the advance dangers. An American news photographer is fatally hit by a Jap sniper. Two other correspondents exposed themselves to help him. Wounded are brought out as the Twenty-Fourth, operating in conjunction with the First Cavalry Division, dismounted closes them on Mt. Cataraban, or Breakneck Ridge. By 22nd December, headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur was able to announce that pincers from north and south have doomed the few Japs still holding out in the corridor.

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Philippine content: PACIFIC: Activities in the Philippines Advance Toward Ormoc Road, 13:21 - 17:11 Language/Translation Info: English List(s) this item appears in: War Footage & Documentaries

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Philippine content: PACIFIC: Activities in the Philippines
Advance Toward Ormoc Road,
13:21 - 17:11

[Transcription]: Mid-November on Leyte. Elements of the Twenty-Fourth Infantry Division, Major General Frederick Irving commanding, advance towards mountain positions, dominating the Ormoc Road. By the fourth week of the New Philippines Campaign, the stubborn enemy is contained in a valley corridor. The valley is threaded by the north-south highway running from Tinamapuan to Ormoc.

Ormoc is the key western port, used by the Japs as a tunnel for reinforcements. Snipers and mortars ran to every foot of the advance dangers.

An American news photographer is fatally hit by a Jap sniper. Two other correspondents exposed themselves to help him.

Wounded are brought out as the Twenty-Fourth, operating in conjunction with the First Cavalry Division, dismounted closes them on Mt. Cataraban, or Breakneck Ridge. By 22nd December, headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur was able to announce that pincers from north and south have doomed the few Japs still holding out in the corridor.

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