Word: corregidor
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Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble, 56, Joy's top subordinate and commander of the Seventh Fleet, an "amphib man," in World War II directed landings in Normandy and the Philippines. Preparing for an attack on Corregidor in 1945, short, twinkle-eyed Arthur Struble was told that the cruisers needed to silence Jap guns on "The Rock" would be late. He said, "Let's go ahead without...
...even symbolic Corregidor has escaped the rot. With inside help, raiders recently penetrated the island fortress, cut through its armory's steel doors, and with insolent leisure ferried truckloads of arms, ammunition and supplies-especially detonators, valuable in any guerrilla operation-down to their boats and away...
Died. Major General George Moore, 62, commander of Corregidor when it fell to the Japanese in 1942; by his own hand (his suicide note said that he feared insanity); on a mountain path near Burlingame, Calif. A crack artilleryman, Texas-born General Moore built up a record (better than 10%) average of antiaircraft destruction on Corregidor. With General Wainwright, theater commander, he surrendered the island to the Japanese and set out on the Bataan Death March to spend three years in Japanese prisons. After the war, he was Army commander in the Pacific, retired eight months ago after 40 years...
...Haste. MacArthur himself last week changed to summer uniform-a cherished one he had worn on Corregidor and on his arrival at Atsugi airdrome, in the late summer of 1945, to take over the defeated country. He talked or worked in his office with his shirt collar unbuttoned, applying innumerable matches to one or another of his 17 pipes...
...Corregidor, the Stars & Stripes, which were hauled down and burned just before the surrender to Japan on May 6, 1942, were pulled down again. After more than four decades as a U.S. fortress, the Rock was turned over to the new Philippines Republic...