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Map of Japanese defenses on Mt. Maculot, 1945. Source: “The Angels: A History of the 11th Airborne Division 1943-1946,” by Major Edward M. Flanagan Jr. |
After liberating the town of Cuenca in March 1945, the United States Army initially left a token force on Mt. Maculot as the rest of its forces drove on eastward to liberate Lipa, including the vital Japanese airfield which would in the future become Fernando Air Base. The Americans finished the job at Maculot in April in what some World War II documents call among the fiercest battles fought in the Western Pacific Theater of War.
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