Word: corregidor
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What had happened to Quezon, Osmeña & Co. this week, nobody knew. President Quezon was supposedly still with MacArthur, probably in the island fortress of Corregidor. If Corregidor should fall, Quezon might be spirited away by plane to Australia, and there set up a Government in exile...
...defeat that American soldiers had not known in a major battle since Appomattox. To the grim, battle-weary soldiers of General Douglas MacArthur, backed up into the mountainous fastnesses of the Bataan peninsula, northwest of abandoned Manila, or desperately fending off Japanese attacks on the great harbor fortress of Corregidor, this...
...Jutland she was a newfangled seaplane tender named Engadine. Now she was the Corregidor, a dumpy, inter-island steamer, and doom hung above her as she pulled away from the dock at Manila...
Blacked out, she was led by a Navy launch toward the minefield sown in the harbor's mouth beyond Corregidor's forbidding heights. Somehow in the dark she ran past the launch. The warning shout from the launch was lost in a vast red explosion. The old Corregidor, her hull burst, settled in shark-ridden waters...
...capital was spared air attack for a full day, apparently because of the good work of interceptor squadrons which met the Japanese about 40 miles north of Manila. But during the first night the Japanese swept in, set fire to gasoline dumps beside Nichols Field, bombed the fort of Corregidor (but not seriously), socked naval drydocks and repair shops. The Japanese aim was reported to be un canny: few non-military buildings were...