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...took heart. Jonathan Wainwright was no hollow-voiced orator, to fire his people with false hopes. If he said it could be done, maybe it could. In the corridors and subterranean rooms of The Rock, the new arrivals were swiftly put to work making life tough for the Jap...
Meanwhile, all the forts were pounded unmercifully. Since Christmas week Corregidor had stood close to 200 air raids. Now it had Jap artillery, emplaced on the heights of Bataan across only two miles of water, to contend with. Bataan was a fine position for the Jap, and it made life on Corregidor, as a U.S. Army officer said, something like living on a bull...
...Jap was on a bull's-eye, too. To The Rock's artillerymen, the roads, hills and valleys of Bataan were as familiar as the vein pattern on the backs of their hairy hands. They had the range of every position behind Mariveles. The Jap found that out as battery after battery was smashed and silenced. When he tried to move up more guns, the sharp-eyed observers on The Rock spotted his dust, called for fire, and got it. Bereft of aerial observation, which would have made things much simpler, the men on Corregidor were doing their...
...long as food, ammunition and medicines held out, Corregidor and its satellites might well hold off the Jap. And now that U.S. bombers had reached up from Australia to Manila, "Skinny" Wain-wright's men could hope that light supplies, at least, might be delivered to them -especially quinine...
...that were to be done, the Jap had to be kept out of U.S. operations bases in the islands to the south, where he was striving with might & main to get everything into the clutch of his stubby fingers. He had finally taken the city of Cebu (which U.S. airmen promptly fired - see p. 20), had landed also on Panay...