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Hello, and thank you for listening to The History of World War II Podcast. Episode

313. Retreat to Baton. Last time, we watched as the Japanese 48th Division continued coming

down south from Ling-Ga-Yin-Golf, all the while applying pressure to General Wade Wright's

Filipino and American forces. Then, the overall situation got worse with the landings of the

Japanese 16th Division on Christmas Eve in Namon Bay to the southeast of Manila. The

battle there went as well for the Japanese as it had in the north. Of course, there were

no large guns to help hold back the invaders in the south as they were all kept on the

west coast to stop any landings there. To let troops land there would have meant for

them a relatively easy drive north to Manila. But General Homo wanted the Japanese 16th

to come ashore in the east to cut off Allied troops further south. Either way, the 16th

had landed and so began to push west and north as they made their way to the main roads.

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