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...defenders to do about it except to keep the raiders high. From their foxholes on the mainland, infantry soldiers kept patrols out in no man's land to be sure that "Tojo" was keeping quiet. Probably in search of prisoners and information, a U.S. force plowed into the Jap lines, and "Skinny" Wainwright was able to report a successful brush...
Meanwhile the Jap apparently was thinking of trying to storm the Manila Bay fortresses from the south. On the Cavite shore he began to gather small boats. When they were massed into a good target, the guns of Forts Hughes, Drum and Frank (south of Corregidor) again went into action, shot them to kindling...
...rest, life had settled into a galling pattern: take the bombing, watch the Jap, wait, wait, wait...
...Well, we were short of pilots and we had a dive-bomber we had to abandon to Jap strafers. So we told this Dutch pilot he could have it. Mind you, he had never flown one before. But the Dutchman's face lit up like the South Seas' full moon. He took only 20 minutes' instructions, and then said he was ready to have the gasoline tanks and bomb bays filled because it was getting late and he had a date at dawn with some Jap transports. He took off to the north, leaving only an exhaust...
Admiral Halsey's force had taken no ground. But, as it had done in January in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands (TIME, Feb. 9), it had smashed the daylights out of two Jap bases. One of them was Wake Island, where 378 Marines had held out for 14 gallant days, second stop beyond Pearl Harbor in the reach to Jap-held Guam and Manila. The other was Marcus Island (Minama Tori Shima to the Japanese), only 1,150 miles from Tokyo...