Word: corregidor
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...nation, sore and grim over the fall of Corregidor, dared not be so sure. Nobody knew the U.S. losses; commentators reserved comment; the public waited, they would patiently wait all this year, for further news...
...last U.S.-Philippine resistance collapsed on Corregidor, Manuel Quezon quietly arrived in the U.S. to set up his territorial Government-in-Exile. After three months on Corregidor, where he lost 18 pounds, President Quezon had followed General MacArthur to Australia. There he was almost a recluse. He smiled once, when told that Japanese propaganda broadcasts reported his death at the hands of MacArthur...
From his shore positions he opened up with 240-mm. (about 9½ in.) guns. The big projectiles hit Corregidor with the clatter of runaway freights, shot up great geysers of dirt and stone. Corregidor pounded back, between times manned its AA, guns against almost constant attack by flat and dive-bombers...
With an eye to the technical advances of the military art as well as to the fortunes of war, Corregidor can observe another anniversary this week. Forty-four years ago, on May Day, Commodore George Dewey slipped in past The Rock on a starlit night. A signal light from The Rock flashed the warning of his fleet's approach, but only a gun on El Fraile (now Fort Drum) spat futilely at the Olympia and her following ships. Next morning the Spanish fleet, cornered like huddled rabbits off Cavite, was bashed to bits...
...Japanese fleet cannot sail in that easily. Corregidor's guns still rule Manila Bay after five months of pounding, and no sizable enemy ship has yet slipped past The Rock. But it will be a sad anniversary, nonetheless, with the U.S. taking it instead of handing it out in Manila...