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Like its ten predecessors, it was a busy week for Douglas MacArthur and his men. The Jap's preponderance in manpower allowed him to relieve his infantry at 48-hour intervals, thereby pumping a steady supply of fresh strength into the front lines. His artillery, which hammered Manila Bay's defending forts from concealed positions across the Bay, was usually fired only in the morning when, with the sun directly behind it, gun flashes were hard to detect. Aerial superiority enabled Japanese dive-bombers to return again & again over U.S. positions, in spite of withering anti-aircraft fire...
General MacArthur continued to direct a defense that matched the Japanese attack in cunning. His line of communications between the Peninsula and Fort Corregidor remained open. His shore defense guns continued to blast Jap flanking attacks. His artillery counterfire from Manila Bay's forts, in his own terse words, "has been effective." His ack-ack guns and runty Air Force were deadly: last week they brought down 15 Japanese planes, including two dive-bombers that mistakenly strafed their own infantry (a regiment of General Akira Nara's 65th Division) with heavy casualties. His observation that the invaders were...
...this connection it is interesting to note that these supplies were loaded on the Army transport Merritt in Manila for shipment to Japan under the direction of Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur, then commander of the Philippine Scouts Brigade...
...Manila was a dead city. The people wandered dully through the streets, prodded on by the bayonets of Jap sentries in civilian clothes. Food and money were scarce. The only stores still open were Japanese bazaars. A package of rice which once cost a nickel now cost 25?. A single match sold for 15 centavos (7½?). Trolleys and a single bus line were still running. But except for these and the dozen arrogant, sleek cars of Japanese officials and their friends, the streets were bare of traffic...
...people of Manila went home to their dark lodgings and locked the doors-although the curfew is not until ten. There they thought of things they had seen...