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...long as food, ammunition and medicines held out, Corregidor and its satellites might well hold off the Jap. And now that U.S. bombers had reached up from Australia to Manila, "Skinny" Wain-wright's men could hope that light supplies, at least, might be delivered to them -especially quinine...
...soldier's eye saw that the end was near. From the shores of the Bay he withdrew his naval forces, sailormen and Marines of the 4th Regiment (evacuated last November from Shanghai) to Corregidor. He tried to strike one last blow. Against a Jap breakthrough on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula he threw a corps in desperate counterattack. It was too much. The glassy-eyed soldiers went forward like men in a dream, so exhausted that many of them could hardly lift their feet, and the Jap mowed them down. The flank folded...
Cebu, 360 miles southeast of Manila, knew what was coming when the Jap finished up on Bataan. Last week, sure enough, the Jap came to Cebu...
...Endangered was the Philippines' own "Voice of Freedom," which has been broadcasting from Corregidor to the Islands on a patched-up, medium-wave sender ever since Manila fell (TIME, March 16). After reaching Australia from Bataan, TIME'S Correspondent Melville Jacoby last week cabled this account...
...detailed story of an escape by sea through the Jap blockade around Bataan. With him on his hazardous, 20-day journey were his pretty bride of four months, Annalee Whitmore Jacoby, and A.P. Correspondent Clark ("Chang") Lee, with whom Jacoby and his wife made their last-minute getaway from Manila on New Year...