Word: corregidor
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Japan admitted another execution of U.S. prisoners. A year after the deed, the Imperial Government announced (through the International Red Cross) that it had done to death three Navy men captured on Bataan and Corregidor. Japan named them: Marine Sergeant Joe B. Chastain of Waco, Tex.; Marine Corporal Victor Paliotti of Cranston, R.I.; Seaman First Class Ferdinand Frank Meringolo of Brooklyn...
With his headquarters on Corregidor, he continued to cross to Bataan to encourage his troops. He was ravaged by beriberi, emaciated. He could barely use his right leg; he dragged himself along with a cane...
...April 8, the cork blew out. Bataan was gone, thousands were dead. Thousands had fallen into the hands of Homma's frenzied and victorious troops. Only a few got across the strait to Corregidor...
Mortar pits became graves for their crews. In the great tunnels, built to make Corregidor as impregnable as Gibraltar, haggard doctors stood and worked on floors slippery with blood. Food, medical supplies, ammunition...
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright hauled down his flag, threw himself and his men on the mercy of the little conqueror, went off with them to share the nation's degradation. Far to the South, in Australia, General MacArthur penned his memorable epitaph: "Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly...