Word: corregidor
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...captain's cabin of the 77-ft. PT-41 he lay on the tiny bunk, beaten, burning with defeat. Corregidor was doomed and with it the Philippines, but one leading actor in the most poignant tragedy in U.S. military history would be missing when the curtain fell. Douglas MacArthur, Field Marshal of the Philippine Army, four-star General in the U.S. Army, had left the stage. It was the order of his Commander in Chief...
...Deceptive Blow. This was what Douglas MacArthur had long advocated, with an intensity which seemed wholly justified because he believed he had been ordered out of Corregidor only in order to lead a counterinvasion soon. Now at last he was striking his massive blow, far behind the enemy's main positions, where the enemy neither expected it nor had organized himself to resist it effectively...
Five hours after the first wave of Army infantrymen dashed across the shell-pocked beaches, General MacArthur and his party filed down a ladder from the Nashville's deck into a landing barge. With him were men who had left Corregidor with him 31 months ago, like his Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland; men who had been sent out later to hib command, like his air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney; men who were going back to their homeland, like President Sergio Osmeña of the Philippine Commonwealth. There was-one notable absentee: Manuel...
...waded ashore. He was wet to the midriff, but the sun glinted on the golden "scrambled eggs" on his strictly individualistic cap as he faced a microphone. To Filipinos his first words were the fulfillment of a promise: "This is the Voice of Freedom." That was how the last Corregidor radio programs began. Said Douglas MacArthur...
...Hard Road. There was a great difference between the Douglas MacArthur who had said goodbye to Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright at Corregidor and the man who now returned to the Philippines. He had been a good general then; now he was one of the great. Outwardly he was the same colorful, often theatrical soldier, visibly aged since December 1941, a little flabbier around the jowls and beltline, half bald, with a brushed-over lock of hair which he selfconsciously stroked when his cap was off. But his military stature had grown vastly. He still spoke sound military theory...