Word: malinta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Banos, choppering to Corregidor for a look at the enormous Malinta Tunnel where Douglas MacArthur holed up during the Japanese siege in 1942. Then, while Lady Bird set out for Manila in one helicopter, Lyndon boarded another for a secret trip that was to become the high point of his tour...
...General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 83, memories came flooding back when the Philippine government presented him with a 30-lb. chunk of reddish granite. The stone was cut from the mouth of Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel, where in 1942 U.S. and Philippine troops held out for four months against Japanese forces. Said MacArthur, his eyes misty as he touched the souvenir: "Corregidor-a wartime rock -but in it, it holds the symbol of the honor of two great nations...
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