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...Pearl Harbor, 2,897 men had died, said Navy Secretary Frank Knox. In the Philippines, thousands more were killed, wounded or taken prisoners, as Douglas MacArthur's outnumbered forces fell back before a swarm of Jap invaders...
...Filipino Army, trained by General MacArthur and led by its own officers, has put up a magnificent fight against the Jap invaders. Said Joaquin Miguel ("Mike") Elizalde, Resident Commissioner for the Philippines in the U.S.: "We will continue to fight for our native soil, foot by foot, on whatever fronts are necessary." But the Filipino Army, with MacArthur's USAFFE, is virtually defeated...
...pursuits flown with dash and gallantry by stringy Filipinos and husky American boys were finally used up. The bombers that had sunk the ships of the Jap were gone. As the Jap neared Manila, even the flying fields were lost. And the Jap knew as did the American soldier that there would be no more to worry about for a long time. Maybe never...
...been inevitable since the Jap smash at Pearl Harbor, his decisive slices into the Philippines' supply line at Wake and Guam. From then on it was a desperate, stubborn, downhill retreat before a foe of overwhelming numbers. The Jap admitted to the folks back home that his own losses were "colossal," that U.S. and Filipino troops fought "like demons." But he had command...
...been the same; the old gang wasn't there and every girl Vag met knew some neat guy fighting in the Pacific, which made him feel sharply his own unheroic role. Maybe he ought to join the air corps right away and get sent to the Philippines. "Vag send Jap bomber down in flames"; that would look great in a headline. But that wouldn't do President Conant and some Deans whose names he couldn't remember had said that students should stay at their books and preserve freedom of thought and the academic tradition and all that...