Word: corregidor
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...Corregidor and in the foxholes of Bataan the strict procession of days marched on with a deadly, thundering sameness. The Jap, scorned in his offer of "honorable surrender," was back at work again...
From dawn to dusk his bombers went over in flights of from three to 54. Mostly they left their cards at Corregidor, home address of Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and keystone of the U.S. structure of resistance...
Meanwhile the Jap apparently was thinking of trying to storm the Manila Bay fortresses from the south. On the Cavite shore he began to gather small boats. When they were massed into a good target, the guns of Forts Hughes, Drum and Frank (south of Corregidor) again went into action, shot them to kindling...
...departure, General Yamashita had undoubtedly regrouped his forces. He had also moved some 240-mm. (about 9½ in.) guns into position somewhere along the edges of Manila Bay. They were the biggest guns yet used by the Jap in Luzon, and they began blasting at the fortress of Corregidor, where General Wainwright makes his headquarters...
...Corregidor got one of its worst poundings of the war. Yamashita may have imagined that General Wainwright was softened up enough for a different approach. On U.S. positions, his aviators dropped cans, tied with red ribbons, bearing identical notes. The notes were addressed "To His Excellency, Major General Jonathan Wainwright...