.
At their most vulnerable point in an assault
river crossing, troops found that the south bank of the Pasig, having suffered the
attention of heavy artillery fire, was strewn with a screen of rubble stretching down to
the low water mark. The assault upon Intramuros from the north would initiate with an
amphibious crossing over the Pasig by the 129th Infantry, whilst the 145th Infantry would
move overland west and through the breaches opened by the artillery. (National
Archives Photo )
