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...India, Burma and China, as well as the Fifth and Sixth Chinese armies in Burma. But most of China's forces were naturally under Generalissimo Chiang. These problems of command ceased to be problems with the High Command working smoothly. Along the Bataan peninsula and across the blue Manila harbor waters to the fortress of Corregidor, the Japanese were threatening a final all-out attack. Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright's future was up to the High Command. And so was the future of the High Command...
...Came Through." On Corregidor, where the great guns leered at the Japs across Manila Bay, it was night when MacArthur left. It was night in Bataan, where the soldiers slept or watched and the P-40s rested under the trees. It was the time for General MacArthur to leave the Philippines, his men, his second home, his assured place in history...
...Australia. To go with him, he chose his handsome, 48-year-old Chief of Staff, Major General Richard K. Sutherland, and his chief air officer, Brigadier General Harold H. George (who directed the savage, brilliant attack by patched-up P-40s on Japanese ships in Manila Bay last fortnight). And the cheering men and officers who said farewell in the Philippines could have done nothing but approve when they saw two others in the MacArthur party: his wife and son, who had lived under the guns of Corregidor Fortress with...
Squalls forced the spluttering Navy bomber down onto the dark seas. When it sank, the three men scrambled into a rubber life raft, 8 ft. by 4 ft. They had only their clothes, a .45 automatic pistol, a pocketknife, pliers and a length of ½-inch Manila line...
When MacArthur withdrew to Bataan he took with him enough of Manila's dismantled station KZRH to make, on reassembly, a 1,000-watt medium-wave transmitter. Bataan thus became a fairly powerful rebroadcast point for short-wave programs from the U.S. The Japanese confiscated all the Filipino short-wave receivers they could find; but to have confiscated other radios would have interfered with their own propaganda purposes. That suited Competitor MacArthur...