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Ours To Hold It High: the history of the 77th Infantry Division in World War II

To Those Who Did Not Return They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, To the going down of sun and in the morning We shall remember them. Lawrence Bryan Digitized by Google CONTENTS FOREWORD by General Bruce ix THOSE WHO HANDED US THE TORCH 1 PART I. BUILDING A COMBAT DIVISION 7 Chapter 1. Activation and Training 9 Chapter 2. Louisiana Maneuvers 26 Chapter 3. The Sands of Hyder 29 Chapter 4. From West Virginia to Chesapeake Bay ... 36 Chapter 5. Training in Pineapple Land 41 PART II. THE LIBERATION OF GUAM 55 Chapter 6. Objective Guam 57 Chapter 7. The Fight for the Beachhead ... . . 62 Chapter 8. To Pago Bay: The Fight for Food 83 Chapter 9. Barrigada: The Fight, for Water 92 Chapter 10. Pursuit Through the Jungle 101 Chapter 11. The Final Push: Yigo and Santa Rosa . . . 113 Chapter 12. Camp McNair and Harmon Road 125 PART III. THE LIBERATION OF LEYTE 139 Chapter 13. No Rest for the Weary 141 Chapter 14. East Leyte: 23 November— 5 December . . . 142 Chapter 15. The End Run to Ormoc 148 Chapter 16. Cogon, Valencia, Tagbong River and Libungao Road Junction 160 Chapter 17. The Road to Palompon 186 PART IV. KERAMA RETTO 223

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