Word: corregidor
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Today, Jan. 30, the anniversary of your birth, smoke-begrimed men, covered with the marks of battle, rise from the fox holes of Bataan and the batteries of Corregidor to pray reverently that God may bless immeasurably the President of the United States. So cabled General Douglas Mac Arthur, who, like Winston Churchill, can turn a dramatic phrase...
...night, while U.S. troops huddled in their positions, some sleeping, some watching, and machine guns chattered fitfully in the advanced positions, the searchlights of Corregidor probed the shadows of Manila Bay for Japs. By day the jungles awoke and monkeys in the trees jibbered shrilly above the shouts of fighting men, the slam of big field pieces...
Near week's end Corregidor's big coast-defense guns, commanding Manila Bay, went into action for the first time...
Douglas MacArthur had chosen his position well. Only his left flank, on the sea south of the blackened ruins of Olongapo naval station, was exposed. The right lay on Manila Bay, and the guns of Corregidor still kept the bay clear of heavy Jap forces...
...torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...