Word: corregidor
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...What are you writing?" he asked. The answer was an unexpected surprise. "I am writing my reminiscences," said General of the Army Douglas MacArthur. With that casual admission, the articulate hero of Corregidor and Bataan and a host of other evocative place names scattered along the land scape of three wars first announced his personal contribution to the written history of his times...
Fertig and his men were rank amateurs at the start. After Corregidor fell, U.S. units left on Mindanao were ordered to surrender. A few officers and men refused to obey that order. By twos and threes they slipped into the jungle, as did several American civilians and some Filipino soldiers and constabulary. At the same time the more warlike local tribes, including the Moslem Moros, whose mountains the Americans had more or less pacified, dug their weapons out of the thatch and resumed their ancestral feuding, bushwhacking Japanese as a useful sideline. But there was only hostility among the rival...
...surrender of Japan. Montpelier's guns blasted away furiously in a dozen Solomons engagements; Fahey complained of the noise in his ears. After the decisive battles off Saipan and in the Philippine Sea: "We played checkers on watch. I slept topside as usual." Watching the recapture of Corregidor: "It took approximately 15 seconds for the parachutists to hit land. A few of the chutes failed to open." Of a bomb hit on Montpelier herself: "More casualties, all wounded. One of the fellows almost had his head taken...
...General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 83, memories came flooding back when the Philippine government presented him with a 30-lb. chunk of reddish granite. The stone was cut from the mouth of Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, where in 1942 U.S. and Philippine troops held out for four months against Japanese forces. Said MacArthur, his eyes misty as he touched the souvenir: "Corregidor-a wartime rock -but in it, it holds the symbol of the honor of two great nations...
...china-shop brand of vitality is what the system needs. The blunt, bustling son of a railroad traffic agent, Toledo-born Jimmy Saxon started World War II as General Douglas MacArthur's financial attaché, saved $80 million in U.S. bullion from falling into Japanese hands on besieged Corregidor; he just loaded the gold aboard a U.S. submarine that happened to need the ballast. From private business and long federal service, notably as top aide to Truman's Treasury Secretary John Snyder, he has firsthand knowledge of how ineffectual Government policy can be. For five years before returning...