Word: corregidor
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...follow a triumphant Chiang Kai-shek into Nanking, must have been reminded of the day four years ago when the Jap bombing of Manila burned her home to the ground and she lost everything but what she was wearing. (After that she spent two bitter months on Bataan and Corregidor - shared our troops' life in everything but firing guns and flying planes-ducked Jap bombs, tended the wounded, helped the doctors fight malaria without quinine...
...Corregidor's fall in 1942 Douglas MacArthur wrote: "Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot, I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly men." Last week many of the Philippine wraiths were again flesh & blood, rescued after more than three years of Japanese prison life...
Soldier's Mother. Horn talked to his mother. Horn's brother had been on Corregidor with the 4th Marines when the Japs took over the Philippines. All they had ever heard about Bill was the letter from the Army saying he was a prisoner...
Major Way Stations. The Philippines, notably Luzon, have land masses which were marked, even before Bataan and Corregidor fell, as inevitable staging areas for armies about to descend upon Japan. Yet the U.S. command had only the most tenuous contact with the Philippines two years ago, by submarine or occasional U.S. aircraft landing on a secret strip on Mindanao...
...young officer, he was not distinguished. In 1923 he was sent to the Philippines-an assignment memorable chiefly because on the way he met and (in Corregidor) married Dade Embick. (Her father, now Lieut. General Stanley D. Embick, is chairman of the Inter-American Defense Board...