INCLUDES INDEX.

Background -- Activation -- From training to combat readiness -- Camp Polk -- Crossing the Pacific -- New Guinea -- Situation in the Pacific -- The 11th Airborne Division on Leyte -- The battle of the airstrips -- Clearing the mountains -- Bito Beach and the invasion of Luzon -- Nasugbu to Manila -- Manila to Los Banos -- Los Banos -- Southern Luzon -- Macolod and Malepunyo -- Mopping up -- Lipa to Okinawa to Japan -- Occupation begins -- Japan.