Word: corregidor
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...again at war. Again it had become, not merely a people with an army, but a people in arms. The old place names still lingered in the American mind, but now there were new names to raise a challenge to the old, Attu was such a name, and Corregidor, and Guadalcanal, Midway and Buna. There were others and there would be more. They too would be long remembered...
...Australia, meantime, General MacArthur continues to ignore his self-appointed backers. Last week, with characteristic, deep-purple eloquence, he commemorated the first anniversary of the surrender of Corregidor...
...ended up on Bataan with General MacArthur, and his eyewitness stories were good reporting. He left before Corregidor's fall "to save my neck." He had heard that Don Bell, an American radio commentator, had been tortured and killed by the Japs in Manila, and assumed he would meet the same fate. He also thought that he and TIME'S Melville Jacoby, who was later killed in Australia, might be able to persuade Washington that the Philippines could be saved with some prompt assistance...
...bombardier for the late Colin Kelly, first U.S. hero of World War II; in a Flying Fortress crash off Port Moresby. Onetime stock clerk in a New York City warehouse, handsome Mike Levin joined the Army on his 23rd birthday, flew with Kelly on his last mission, served at Corregidor before he went to Australia, was Brooklyn's No. 1 air hero...
...British diplomats and officers who have talked with Stalin say that he knows more than most Washington and London officials about Allied performance, personalities and weaknesses. He has on the end of his blunt tongue the exact dates of and reasons for the fall of Bataan, Corregidor, Singapore, Hong Kong, Rangoon. He says: "Timoshenko is my George Washington" (because Washington retired from Philadelphia to Valley Forge but still won the Revolutionary War); and: "Zhukov, he is my George B. McClellan-except that he has never lost a battle" (McClellan always hollered for more men, more weapons, more supply, more cavalry...