Word: corregidor
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...special sense, this is what the honored, respectably liberal Goethe did when he committed his rebelliousness to paper. But man in the mass, who does not have such comfortable literary outlets, can "become transformed into storm trooper, Blackshirt, NKVD inquisitor, guard on the long march from Corregidor, or burner of the fiery cross...
...spent a lot of further time digging through Army files, private letters and diaries, and personally interviewing survivors. His book builds to a melancholy climax, from the bombing of Clark Field through the Japanese landings, the fight on Bataan, and the departure of MacArthur, to the final battle of Corregidor and Wain-wright's surrender. While The Fall of the Philippines holds no major surprises, it puts the tragedy in clear perspective...
...April, courage could no longer stave off defeat for sick and starving men. On April 9 Bataan fell, on May 6 Wainwright surrendered Corregidor. The Japanese high command had set a Feb. 1 deadline for the conquest of Luzon, and the men of Bataan had upset that timetable. They had proved that the Japanese could be stopped. And out of their defeat they had fashioned an enduring American epic...
...Fourth Army soldiers escorted his body out of Fort Sam's chapel to the post gate. Behind the coffin, his orderly led a cavalry horse with an empty saddle, the general's spurred boots reversed in the stirrups, and the sword he had once surrendered on Corregidor hanging stiffly at the side...
Died. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, 70, lean, hard-bitten hero of Bataan and Corregidor during the darkest days of the war in the Pacific; of a stroke; in San Antonio (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...