Word: corregidor
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...first copy off the press was presented to General MacArthur. Some 5,000 copies were given away to troops fighting in Manila, on Corregidor, and all the way north to Rosario; and plenty of copies were also sent to the news-hungry internees at Santo Tomas University...
...week's end there were other great events: the flag-raising on Corregidor, the renewed air blows at Tokyo, and the battering push toward the plain of Cologne (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). But Iwo held top place in the minds and hearts of Americans. Henceforth, Iwo would be a place name in U.S. history to rank with Valley Forge, Gettysburg and Tarawa. Few in this generation would ever forget Iwo's shifting black sands, or the mind's images of charging marines, or the sculptured picture of Old Glory rising atop Mount Suribachi...
...Then the rest of the plan began to unfold. Cruisers and destroyers stood off the mouth of Manila Bay, battering Corregidor's guns into sullen silence. From Olongapo, recently captured naval station in Bataan's northwest corner, minesweepers dashed in under the threatening shadow of Corregidor and swept a channel into Mariveles harbor, at the southern tip of Bataan. Landing craft followed them. The first wave got off lightly; the next waves were less fortunate. But the Japs were disorganized. Within a few hours a junction was made near Lamao with the 1st Infantry Regiment. Bataan was sealed...
...attack on Corregidor came literally out of the blue. One half of the 503rd Parachute Regiment boarded its planes on Mindoro Island. As their transports sailed over the ½-sq.-mi. head of pollywog-shaped Corregidor, the paratroopers jumped in ten-man teams, one at a time, for almost two hours. Most came down on "Topside," the western plateau of the fortress islet, but some were carried by the wind over the cliffs into South Channel, where PT boats scurried to pick them up. The sky troopers took most of Corregidor's remaining guns from the rear...
Meanwhile, landing craft from Mariveles nosed around Corregidor to the south shore. As the assault waves charged up the beach of San José Bay, the Japs were trapped between airborne and seaborne forces. Jap resistance was as tough as usual, but there were not enough Japs to stem the rush...