Word: corregidor
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...willing to pay dearly. So last week, the sixth of the Battle of Luzon, he lashed fiercely at General Douglas MacArthur's tough little Army. MacArthur's men, holed up in the mountain-wild Bataan peninsula with an anchor below on the island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay, gave better than they received...
...except the front-line areas, the worst nuisance and the most pregnant occasion for levity were intermittent bombings by the Jap. "Keep 'em falling" became the anti-aircraft gunner's slogan. Melville Jacoby. TIME correspondent on Corregidor, reported that the Jap was losing one out of every seven planes to fire from the ground...
...left flank of the Army, now facing northeast, rested on the sea. Within its lines lay Subic Bay and the naval base at Olongapo, where a relieving force could be landed if it should come. Behind it, separated by only two miles of water lay Corregidor, a tadpole-shaped fortress in the mouth of Manila Bay, with its sandy low-lying tail pointed toward the city...
...Fortress. It was Corregidor that the Jap wanted most. Until its 12 in. guns are silenced, until the troops are bombed out of galleries bored through solid rock in the rearing head of the tadpole, the Jap can never hope to sail his ships into Manila Bay. For south of Corregidor it is only seven miles to the other shore of the harbor's mouth...
...invader went to work on Corregidor at once. From mass flights (which may have come from the U.S.'s Nichols Field, only ten minutes away) he began to bomb. There were 60 planes in the 'first attack, 21 in the second, 52 in the third. Standing to their guns, under Corregidor's spectacled, coast artilleryman commander, Major General George F. Moore, anti-aircraft men knocked 15 into the Bay, sent others away limping...