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...Cover) About 2 a.m. a signal rocket burst palely over the fortress island of Corregidor, Japanese batteries which had been shelling the island constantly for seven days opened up with a new and concentrated frenzy from their positions on the heights of Mariveles. Japanese infantrymen, ferried across the channel by small boats and bamboo rafts, swarmed onto the island's low-lying eastern shore...
From a radio dugout deep in Corregidor 's rock heart a boy from Brooklyn tapped out: "Too much for guys to take. . . . They have got us all around and from the sky. . . . Everyone is bawling like a baby. They are piling dead and wounded in our tunnel. . . . I know now how a mouse feels, caught in a trap, My name Irving Strobing. . . . Tell my mother how you heard from...
...white flag. He "slumped into a chair . . . head held in both hands, his eyes staring at the ground." When the victorious Japanese commander entered the room, "Wainwright and his aides stood up at rigid attention and saluted." Wainwright said that "he had come to talk surrender." It was Corregidor...
Into the Depths. Since Corregidor two long years have passed. Fresher violences have obscured the memory of Wainwright, the men who fought with him and the bitter story of national humiliation...
...January MacArthur said: "The enemy may hold the bottle but I hold the cork." He had moved his headquarters to Corregidor...