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DELIGHTED TO INFORM YOU TIME IS FIRST MAGAZINE TO PUBLISH IN MANILA. FIVE THOUSAND COPIES OF OUR FEBRUARY 19 PONY WERE DISTRIBUTED HERE FRIDAY (FEBRUARY 22, U.S. DATE). QUALITY GOOD...
...gallant garrisons of the peninsula and "the Rock" had been lost, with Lieut. General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright, because the U.S. had tried to do too much with too little. Last week, while one of his armies (the Sixth) fought the cornered Japs in southern Manila, General MacArthur had ample force to swing another of his armies (the Eighth) down Bataan and across the four-mile channel to the Rock. Wainwright and his men were not yet fully avenged, but the sweetness of revenge to come...
...Then the rest of the plan began to unfold. Cruisers and destroyers stood off the mouth of Manila Bay, battering Corregidor's guns into sullen silence. From Olongapo, recently captured naval station in Bataan's northwest corner, minesweepers dashed in under the threatening shadow of Corregidor and swept a channel into Mariveles harbor, at the southern tip of Bataan. Landing craft followed them. The first wave got off lightly; the next waves were less fortunate. But the Japs were disorganized. Within a few hours a junction was made near Lamao with the 1st Infantry Regiment. Bataan was sealed...
...Beast at Bay. The clearing of Manila Bay would open a great supply base for MacArthur's operations. But while the fighting continued, Manila was a city in torment...
Radioed TIME Correspondent William P. Gray: "This city's misery goes on & on. Two weeks after the 1st Cavalry raced into Santo Tomás, it shudders almost constantly under the convulsive roaring of our Long Toms [155-mm. rifles] shelling the Japs inside Manila and close on its outskirts. Liberation has cost a price which only so precious a thing as freedom could justify, yet I have found no Filipino unwilling...