Word: corregidor
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...posed for photographers, told newsmen: "When war began I said the Philippines will stand by the United States until the bitter end. Thank God the fact proves I was right." He said little more. A hacking, tuberculous cough interrupted his every word. How did he feel about Bataan and Corregidor? Manuel Quezon leaned wearily back in a deep, red chair, closed his eyes and murmured huskily: "I am proud...
Toward the end there was no sleep on Corregidor...
...Corregidor was through. Five months after the Jap's first attack, the last island of formal resistance in the Philippines was going. An army of more than 10,000 crack troops, wasted by want, without hope of relief, was going...
Twenty-four Hours. One day when the sun had gone down and there was little light from the waning moon, the Jap set out in assault boats from Bataan. Corregidor, still on its feet, slashed at the landing parties with rifle and machine-gun fire, but the artillery pieces that should have been there to stop them were silent. In the great rents made in the barbed wire by the Jap's guns he beached his troops...
...incredible, bloody hours, American fighting men-marines, sailors, U.S. and Filipino soldiers-grappled for Corregidor. The island's death rattle could be heard far inland...