Word: corregidor
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...husband, Captain Edmund Peter Zbikowski (803rd Engr. Bn. Avn.) died on April 2, 1942, of wounds sustained in battle. He was a hero of Bataan and Corregidor...
...joint Army-Navy release, based on factual, eyewitness, non-hearsay accounts from Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess and two others who escaped from Jap imprisonment and torture last April. From their reports, the Army & Navy concluded that of the 22,300 Americans taken captive on Bataan and Corregidor, at least 7,700 had been tortured, starved or shot to death in the first year of imprisonment. The number of dead among the 28,000 Filipino captives was incalculable...
Captain Jonathan M. Wainwright 5th, seagoing son of the lieutenant general captured on Corregidor by the Japs, was awarded the D.S.M. of the Merchant Marine in Manhattan. Master of a ship bombed at Salerno, he had first abandoned her with the crew after a fire in a hold full of high octane gasoline had risen mast-high. Then he returned with one man and took off wounded. The ship later exploded...
...welcome their fighter escorts. One of the best of the bomber's new friends is a silent, rosy-cheeked Group Commander, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Cummings Jr., who was on Clark Field when the Japs attacked the Philippines, made his way to the Eighth by way of Corregidor, Java and Australia. In some five months, Cummings has led Thunderbolts over Bremen, Cologne, Emden and the Ruhr...
Later they pass up their last chance to escape to Corregidor, give themselves up to the enemy at the bitter...