Word: corregidor
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...Eyewitnesses testified that Homma's artillery and bombers blasted away at Corregidor for 24 hours after a white flag had been hoisted on the Rock's 660-ft. summit...
Welcome Home. This month there was a parade in Albuquerque. The city's veterans of the 200th and 515th Coast Artillery, 151 survivors of Bataan and Corregidor and the dark days after, marched proudly down the streets. Nano Lucero marched with them, in a uniform which he no longer had need to disguise. Romana stood among the cheering crowd on the sidewalks, but there was no pride or peace in her heart...
...first Thanksgiving at home since Pearl Harbor, General Jonathan Wainwright, hero of Corregidor, wrote this prayer for Americans...
...walked out, gaunt and shaken, to surrender Corregidor, Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright did not feel like a hero. As a prisoner of Japan he did not feel like one, either. "Skinny" Wainwright, who could remember the bugle-bright traditions of the U.S. cavalry, learned a dingier drill-to remove his shoes when entering buildings, to bow to his captors. He was allowed no news. Lonely and aging, he could only wonder about how the war was going, and what the nation and the Army thought about him-if they ever did think about...
...airmen from whom the Japanese hoped to extract information, there was special treatment. At Ofuna, a camp for unregistered prisoners, they endured months of solitary confinement and tortures. Husky guards took pride in breaking jaws and eardrums. At a Japanese prison camp, Marine Lieut. William Harris, veteran of Corregidor was battered for half an hour with a baseball bat. He lived, but others, after similar treatment, died. There were also more refined methods: metal bits were fastened into soldiers' mouths with thread which gradually drew tighter & tighter;match slivers were thrust under men's fingernails, and jagged ends...