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General MacArthur continued to direct a defense that matched the Japanese attack in cunning. His line of communications between the Peninsula and Fort Corregidor remained open. His shore defense guns continued to blast Jap flanking attacks. His artillery counterfire from Manila Bay's forts, in his own terse words, "has been effective." His ack-ack guns and runty Air Force were deadly: last week they brought down 15 Japanese planes, including two dive-bombers that mistakenly strafed their own infantry (a regiment of General Akira Nara's 65th Division) with heavy casualties. His observation that the invaders were...
...bullet nick in his helmet, admitted that he never believed in God before. Chaplains and others all agree that more people believe in God since the war has begun. The sight of a soldier sitting by a machine gun reading a Bible is not uncommon in Bataan or Corregidor. Soldiers and sailors pen brief notes to the chaplains asking for New Testaments, and several of the chaplains have passed out over 2,000 copies since...
...cavalry expert, is Douglas MacArthur's second in command. Horseman Wainwright and Brigadier General Albert N. Jones received Distinguished Service Crosses for "extraordinary heroism in action" during early phases of the Philippine invasion. Douglas MacArthurs Chief of Staff is handsome, young (48) Major General Richard K. Sutherland. Commanding Corregidor is tall, thin Major General George F. Moore, a Coast Artilleryman since 1909. Carl Seals, Douglas MacArthur's closest friend and Adjutant General, was recently made a brigadier. Chief of engineers is Brooklyn-born Brigadier General (until recently Colonel) Hugh John Casey, of Casey's Cookies fame (TIME...
...taken a long chance, had gathered an attacking force under cover just across the bay, presumably to be used against Corregidor. Somehow Corregidor knew. About the time the Jap was ready to move, the guns of Corregidor, and of Forts Hughes, Drum and Frank on the small islands near Corregidor, opened up. Taken by surprise, the landing party, its boats and its launches were destroyed...
...fight went on. Melville Jacoby, TIME correspondent, radioed from Corregidor...