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While they fought and worked with coolness and precision at their staff and supply work, they must have thought of the American women on Luzon. Many of them, perhaps all of them, were now in the areas held by the Jap. Army & Navy men could thank their Government's forethought in ordering service families out of the islands. All were gone, except Douglas MacArthur's wife and three-year-old son, when war struck...
...Retreat. Manila was an unequivocal liability. It lies in flat land with its back to the bay. It could be only a trap-a soft spot for a wedge to be driven home by the Jap to split the Army. As he had long planned to do in a last-ditch fight, General MacArthur abandoned Manila, already declared an open city, already heavily bombed...
Before the week's end the withdrawal had been skillfully completed. The Army of the Philippines was holed up in an area almost devoid of roads, tough for armored-force operations, ideal for making the Jap pay for what he might eventually get. He made his first payment as this week began. Douglas MacArthur announced the Jap had lost at least 700 killed in a single, thwarted attack on the U.S. lines...
...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...
...Shame. But for Douglas MacArthur the future looked dark. The best he could reasonably hope for was that he and his men could hang on, delay the Jap, perhaps effectively hamstring some of the forces that the enemy hopes to use on a more important strategic position: Singapore. For want of airplanes, MacArthur had been forced to a bitter decision: make the enemy pay for what he gets...