Evening star., 1945-01-28
Yanks Capture
Angeles in Push
| toward Manila
Jops Being Cleared
From Hills Near
Clark Field
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD.
QUARTERS, Luzon, Sunday, Jan
28.-Capture of the Pampangs
Province town of Angeles, A air.
line miles from Manila, by 1t
Gen. Walter Krueger's 9Th Army
was disclosed today in a field
dispatch after Gen. MacArthur's
communique had reported the
18th Corps was approaching ii
in force.
In a dispatch dated Saturday
from Angeles, Spencer Davis, Asso-
ciated Press war correspondent
told of tanks Gathering through the
central plaza while crowds cheered
and a rignified matron shouted
God Bless America"
Angeles, on the main Manila
Baguio highway, is 10 miles north
west of San Fernando, the capital
of Pampanga Province. 1t is on
the road which leads between two
swamplands just southwest of San
Fernando, the shortest route to
Manila. Angeles is famous as a
wood-carving center.
Japs Being Cleared Out.
Meanwhile, near Clark Field, the
Yanks systemically are clearing out
the enemy in hills southwest of
the air center.
These foes must be accounted for
in order to secure usage of the fields
II alrstrips which were overrun
Thursday and found to be Uttered
with the wrecks of an estimated 300
to 400 enemy planes.
Today's capture of Angeles sug-
gested the enemy opposition re-
ported yesterday south Of the Bam-
ban had not proved of any sizable
Mr.. Davis description of the gala
scene made it evident there was not
even semblance Of fighting In
Angeles.
Girls in bright print dresses and
wooden sandals headed a column OF
the Filipino Peoples Anti-Japanese
Army (Hukbalahapas), waving flags
of the United States and the Free
Philippines.
Yanks See Jap Sign.
Yanks entering Angeles passed a
sign reading in English:
Prohibit to pass this road except
japanese Army"
The bloodless entry into a town
which had prewar population o1
$4,000 was preceded by the swift
liquidation of so japanese and a
light tank several miles north ot
Angeles.
Mr.. Davis said Angeles had not
been damaged by the enemy in con-
trast with destruction of the towns
of Tarlac and Bamban as well al
parts of Clark Field.
Well to- the north, the 1st Army
Corps in the Rosario-San Manue
sector, below the Philippines sum,
her capital of Baguio, occupied tive
towns and destroyed 10 enemy tank,
in bloody contest extending intt
the third day for possession of an.
other town.
The stiff fight was at San Manuel
which the Yanks have cut off or
three sides. The Americans contro
two-thirds of the town. The JAP
aneSe have sunk tanks into the
ground under buildings and USED
tank guns to slow up the attack
There is bitter fighting there during
which the japanese frequently make
frenzied banzai charges.
Yanks Near Junction.
Other Yanks closed in on the key
highway junction east of the no.
man's-land town of Rosario.
In this sector the capture of the
little town of Agat, on the roac
which leads behind Rosario, was
reported in today's communique
The Yank captors of Agat are
pushing north toward the town OF
Camp One which is behind Rosario
The Far Eastern Air Force drop
ped So tons of explosives which
started huge fires in their third
straight strike at Corregidor, the
fortress rock in Manila Bay. Bataan
also was bombed.
Far to the northeast of the fight
ing scene other American planes
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