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...wives and daughters of U.S. civilians were still there, and the Japanese were strutting. In abandoned Manila they ordered all whites to stay indoors or be shot. From his fortress in the harbor, Douglas MacArthur charged that this treatment of U.S. civilians was already "especially harsh...
...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...
...week's most telling blow was struck farther south, where Russian soldiers, advancing under heavy German air attacks, occupied the fortress of Kerch and the town of Feodosiya in eastern Crimea. Once Crimea is again in Russian hands (the naval base of Sevastopol is still under German siege), Soviet planes will be based a scant 100 miles from the German-dominated Rumanian coast, the Soviet Fleet again will be an offensive weapon in the Black Sea, and Germany's threat to the oil of the Caucasus will be weakened...
...their zeal to assist the visitors, the residents of one village had cut a German telegraph line in 35 places, had committed other appropriate forms of sabotage. Spreading throughout Norway was a growing conviction that Commando raids presage a mass British attempt to wrest from German hands the naval fortress of Narvik, and ultimately the whole of Norway...