The last Jap holds on the Philippines were being pried loose. On Mindanao last week two U.S. Army divisions were pressing close to Davao. A second landing was made on Negros. Major General Innis P. Swift's I Corps, racing the rainy season that starts in mid-May, stepped up its drive over the razor-backed ridges of northern Luzon and captured Baguio, summertime capital of the islands.
From Luzon TIME Correspondent William P. Gray radioed:
The mountain war for Baguio may be remembered best in time to come as the war of the Igorot women. Scores of...
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