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...losing fight, a small-scale replica of the great battle of Luzon. Unless help should come, all the Philippines' defenders could hope for was the bitter, bloody price of a last-ditch fight. It would not be in vain. As long as the Philippines held out, the Jap could not exert his full force on the vital fortress of Singapore...
...Douglas MacArthur and his men could hold out long enough, they might still be saved. The Jap was likely to lose the impetus of his first drive as he hit the prepared defense positions, was going to feel in his formations, as well as in his stoic soul, the loss of thousands of fighting men. The U.S. Navy, which this week promised help to the Philippines (see p. 17) might still make the battle's result a question of whose supplies could hold out longer...
...gift was duly appreciated. A few days after the Jap came to Luzon, Chief Tomas picked up three Nip pilots forced down in his territory, trussed them like pigs, delivered them to his Yankee friends. This week Tomas decided the time had come for a more decisive step. With a sling of poisoned arrows over his shoulder, an ancient cartridge belt around his middle and a gleaming bolo in his hand, he looked up the U.S. Army. Drawing himself up to his full height (4 ft.), he announced that the Balugas had unanimously voted to help the U.S. defeat Japan...
Since the 8th of December (the 7th on the U.S. side of the International Date Line) the little band of 378 sea-soldiers had been under repeated Jap attack. Frying in the Pacific sun on their desolate four-mile-long atoll they had seen a Jap cruiser and two destroyers standing off the island with the signal "Surrender" flapping gaily from their signal halyards...
That was just the beginning - after the first aerial assault that had told them the show was on. Bantam (5 ft. 5 in.) Major James Patrick Sinnott Devereux, the detachment commander, returned a Marine's answer: "Come and get us." The Jap got another answer. Somehow, either by bombardment from the four fighter planes still on the island (eight had been smashed by the enemy) or by fire from his six 5-in. guns, little Jimmie Devereux sank the cruiser and one of the destroyers. He reported it tersely to Honolulu. Later he reported his men had sunk...