Word: corregidor
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...Corregidor can and will be held. There can be no question of surrendering this mighty fortress to the enemy; it will be defended with all the resources at our command...
...Islands, as in the U.S., hundreds of cities and villages mourned their men. Virtually all of the 2,300 of the New Mexico National Guard had been in the Philippines. Mothers and wives met from Deming to Rosewell to Santa Fe, still hoped their coast artillerymen were on Corregidor. Salinas, Calif, lost a company of infantry soldiers; California mothers wept with Filipino women whose sons were veterans in the Scouts, or lean-faced youngsters just out of the West Point grey of the Philippine Military Academy...
...Cleveland, relatives counted the loss of 75 sons (some of whom might still be in Corregidor.); in Maywood and other towns on Chicago's edge, the loss of a National Guard tank company. Other tankers, 106 of them, had gone to the Islands from Janesville (pop. 23,000) in the dairy country of Wisconsin...
...Jonathan Wainwright broadcast a message of good cheer to "Skinny," accompanied by three wagging woofs from the General's pet Labrador Retriever. When the end of Bataan came, KGEI's "Freedom for the Philippines" rose to the occasion with a solemnity by which the grim survivors on Corregidor were moved to tears: "The world will long remember the epic struggle the Filipinos and Americans put up. . . . But what sustained them through all these months of incessant battle was a force more than physical. It was the thought of their native land and all it holds that is most...
...Endangered was the Philippines' own "Voice of Freedom," which has been broadcasting from Corregidor to the Islands on a patched-up, medium-wave sender ever since Manila fell (TIME, March 16). After reaching Australia from Bataan, TIME'S Correspondent Melville Jacoby last week cabled this account...