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| | HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Fall of the Philippines [Chapter 12] |
 | | If necessary, the tank battalion was to move to Bocaue, between Manila and Plaridel, to reinforce Company C, part of the South Luzon Force, which was to hold that barrio "until the extrication of North and South Luzon Forces was insured."[2] At least one company of the 192d Tank Battalion was in the Plaridel-Baliuag area. |
 | | Heavily laden with dynamite charges for rapid demolition and protected by only two gun batteries of the 200th Coast Artillery (AA), the bridges were extremely vulnerable to air attack.[11] Indeed, like marriage, in Shaw's classic definition, they combined the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. |
 | | From Calumpit north to San Fernando, and from there south to Bataan, the road was packed with a "solid stream of traffic," military and civilian.[14] Vehicles of all types--cars, buses, trucks, artillery, and tanks--filled the center of the road. |
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