'The Town Nobody Wants' Is Left By Foe as Bait Along Manila Route; Norzagaray Is Little Touched by War, but Hidden Guns of Japanese Dug Into Hills Make By-Passed Village Untenable Town Is Almost Intact Bold GIs Go Swimming
By LINDESAY PARROTT By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES. ();
April 05, 1945,
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WITH THE 112TH CAVALRY, April 14--There is a little town in the Philippines today that they are calling "the town nobody wants." It is named Norzagaray, a small, sleepy settlement of white, tinroofed houses that before the war boasted a population of 10,000 divided between the town and the surrounding barrios.
April 05, 1945
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