Word: corregidor
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...weeks ago, a Navy general court-martial at Brooklyn's Naval Shipyard began the trial of stocky Chief Signalman Harold E. Hirshberg, 29, a regular Navy man and a section leader in several Japanese prison camps after his capture at Corregidor. Chief Hirshberg was charged with hitting six men in his charge, and of informing against three who planned to escape. One of the three had been tortured to death by the Japanese...
...days a Navy court-martial in Washington (five captains and two commanders) heard, in secret, the case against Lieut. Commander Edward Neal Little, 39-year-old Naval Academy graduate who won the Silver Star for gallantry during Corregidor's last days. Behind the case-a deep hatred of Little by some Army, Navy and Marine Corps enlisted men who had been his fellow prisoners of war at Camp 17, Omuta, where the Japanese worked American P.W.s in the coal mines...
...Cession of historic Corregidor as a war memorial...
...plea is made, however, that TIME readers sympathize with rather than sneer at us for this new phenomenon in Philippine life, brought about by Japanese occupation. Before Pearl Harbor, criminality in the Philippines was no worse than in the U.S. and in other countries. After the American surrender at Corregidor, Filipino character . . . had the ruggedness to choose continuance of resistance against the Japs either by guile or by force, in the hills and in the valleys, to make General MacArthur's promised return come sooner, less costly in American lives...
...United China Relief, she and her fiance, TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby, retired to Manila in November 1941 in order to be married under slightly less uncertain conditions. Within two weeks the Philippines were attacked and their wedding trip was a 2,500-mile voyage in a small boat from Corregidor to Australia. There, shortly afterward, Jacoby was killed in an airfield accident. After two years in the U.S., Annalee Jacoby returned to Chungking in 1944 to look after TIME'S office during the intervals when White was in the field...