Word: corregidor
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...Year's Eve 1941 Mydans elected to stay behind in burning Manila while TIME'S other correspondent in the Philippines, Melville Jacoby, took off on a little island freighter to follow the action across the bay to Bataan and Corregidor. Two days later Mydans and his wife Shelley were herded with some 3,500 other Americans into the internment camp at Santo Tomas University. They spent the next 21 months as prisoners of the Japs...
...field artillery unit whom Mucci himself had trained as combat troops two years ago in New Guinea. Mucci was a West Pointer, son of a Bridgeport, Conn, horse dealer. In command of his Filipinos: Major Robert Lapham, who had been fighting with the guerrillas since before the fall of Corregidor. Mucci's force had suffered some casualties: three wounded, 27 killed...
When a Jap midget submarine fired two torpedoes at the ship, and was rammed by a U.S. destroyer, MacArthur watched with emotionless interest. His calm under air attack, first noted in Manila and Corregidor, was again displayed...
Luzon was the objective. Every move by General MacArthur's forces pointed toward the main, northernmost island of the Philippines, site of its historic capital and scene of the bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor...
...Memories. In his bare little office in Tacloban, small, silent President Sergio Osmeña toiled at the multiple tasks of the new Government. He moved with tolerance and caution. After Corregidor's surrender, thousands of Filipinos had accepted Japanese "Kalibapi cards" and joined Japanese "neighborhood associations," simply to go on living and eating. But the Filipinos wanted no head-shavings or witch hunts. By last week 140 suspected collaborators were imprisoned. But Sergio Osmeña wanted only major offenders; 60 small fry suspects had already been paroled...