Word: corregidor
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...Corregidor and its three satellite forts between the jaws of his artillery. He bit down hardest on Corregidor, hurling shells from the heights of Bataan on the north and from the flats of Cavite on the east. He knew that The Rock was going to need a lot of pounding...
...States as on Corregidor and its satellites (Forts Drum, Hughes and Frank), men took heart. Jonathan Wainwright was no hollow-voiced orator, to fire his people with false hopes. If he said it could be done, maybe it could. In the corridors and subterranean rooms of The Rock, the new arrivals were swiftly put to work making life tough...
Meanwhile, all the forts were pounded unmercifully. Since Christmas week Corregidor had stood close to 200 air raids. Now it had Jap artillery, emplaced on the heights of Bataan across only two miles of water, to contend with. Bataan was a fine position for the Jap, and it made life on Corregidor, as a U.S. Army officer said, something like living on a bull...
...found that out as battery after battery was smashed and silenced. When he tried to move up more guns, the sharp-eyed observers on The Rock spotted his dust, called for fire, and got it. Bereft of aerial observation, which would have made things much simpler, the men on Corregidor were doing their best, and it was still good...
...long as food, ammunition and medicines held out, Corregidor and its satellites might well hold off the Jap. And now that U.S. bombers had reached up from Australia to Manila, "Skinny" Wain-wright's men could hope that light supplies, at least, might be delivered to them -especially quinine...