Word: corregidor
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...Commander Frederick Burdett ("Peanuts") Warder, a mild-appearing, silent man whose only regret for his historic rampage in the Java Sea as captain of the Seawolf is that it inspired some writer tc curse him with the nickname of "Fearless Freddie"; Commander Mike Fenno, who took the Trout into Corregidor with ammunition and brought out a cargo oi Manila gold...
...Filipinos who fought the Jap through Bataan and on Corregidor, and who now suffer the full measure of Jap co-prosperity, Manuel Quezon is an undying symbol of Philippine independence. Both Manuel Quezon and goodman Osmeña were mum last week. In the end, the ticklish question of the Presidential tenure will almost certainly be settled by the White House...
...from the story halfway through when, to ensure the get away of her sister nurses, she walks off with a grenade and detonates herself among the enemy. Nurses Colbert and Goddard carry on gallantly among bombed field hospitals and strafed wounded, until they are sent for greater safety to Corregidor. A further removal (to Australia) separates them from their romantic inter ests, who face imprisonment or death. In between love scenes that are not painfully overemphatic there are some very emphatic bombs, a shortage of food and medical supplies, and an abundance of nursely duties, which are sincere and effective...
Weakened by disease and defeat, U.S. prisoners of war in Japanese camps are dying at the rate of 50 per 1,000 per year. Last week the War Department gave out the names of an additional 291, bringing the total since Bataan and Corregidor to 929 dead of such diseases as malaria, diphtheria, dysentery, pneumonia and beriberi.* Knowing the poor condition of the men who fought on Bataan, the War Department has made no charge of maltreatment. But the Surgeon General's Office thinks the death rate high...
...Islands. On the same night a little fleet of landing boats moved out from Papua, toward the Trobriand and Woodlark Islands. Lieut. Commander John D. Bulkeley, the famed "expendable" who brought General MacArthur out of Corregidor, commanded an escorting section of PT boats. Overhead low-flying P-38s also guarded the convoy...