Word: corregidor
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...Through the International Red Cross, the War Department last week received official word that Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Commander of Corregidor, is imprisoned on Formosa with twelve other U.S. generals: Major Generals Edward King Jr., George F. Moore, George M. Parker Jr., Brigadier Generals Lewis C. Beebe, Clifford Bluemel, William E. Brougher, Charles C. Drake, Arnold J. Funk, Maxon S. Lough, Allan C. McBride, Clinton A. Pierce, James R. N. Weaver...
...greatest military conquests of the year-although not against the greatest forces-were those of frog-legged Tomoyuki Yamashita, who blasted the British out of Singapore, the Dutch out of the Indies and the U.S. out of Bataan and Corregidor. Yamashita in one year successfully seized a great empire for his country. On his side were advantages in numbers, in preparation, in the stupidity of the Allied nations, but Yamashita successfully capitalized on them...
...Arizona gaped from their graves at Oahu, ships slightly more fortunate were being readied for removal and repair, and bombed planes still made ugly piles on the Army fields. The Japs were closing on Manila, hacking away the last Army air forces in the Philippines; MacArthur was looking to Corregidor and Bataan, and Admiral Hart's Asiatic "Fleet" of cruisers and destroyers was on its way to glory and futility in the Indies. Guam had fallen; Wake had a few days of glory left. The Japs were in Malaya, headed for Singapore. The Prince of Wales and the Repulse...
...MacArthur is the job of one of the hardest-working men in the U.S. Army: quiet, lean, handsome Major General Richard K. Sutherland, whom the War Department last week rewarded with an Oak Leaf Cluster "for gallantry in action" to add to his Silver Star. His staff work at Corregidor had already won him the coveted D.S.M...
...Pushover. "We must attack, attack, attack!" General MacArthur had told a press conference in Melbourne last summer. Now he was attacking and the taste was good. He himself was functioning close to a scene of action for the first time since he left Corregidor...