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...caliber, flat trajectory pieces hurled their projectiles screaming into The Rock's gun positions and galleries and shelters. His mortars and howitzers looped great shells high in the air. With all his observation points on surrounding shores, the Jap could not miss...
Thirteen Raids. In the last few days, the Jap hit the defenders with everything he had. For four days in a row The Rock and its three satellite forts took 13 bombing raids a day. Meanwhile from Cavite, to the south, and from Mariveles' heights, north of The Rock, the Jap poured in a merciless artillery fire, 24 hours...
Twenty-four Hours. One day when the sun had gone down and there was little light from the waning moon, the Jap set out in assault boats from Bataan. Corregidor, still on its feet, slashed at the landing parties with rifle and machine-gun fire, but the artillery pieces that should have been there to stop them were silent. In the great rents made in the barbed wire by the Jap's guns he beached his troops...
...Corregidor's men it was an old story. There were always live Japs where the dead ones came from. They poured across the narrow waters in flood, swarmed over and through the defenders. The Jap was just too many...
...Australia, where a few of Corregidor's old garrison were leading a new fight, The Rock's fall struck deep, even though, like the fall of Bataan, it had been inevitable. Officers there thought not of the troops the Jap could now free for other areas, not of Manila's fine harbor, now open for a Jap base. They thought of the cheerful, undaunted soldiers they had left behind. Wrote Douglas MacArthur...