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Heavy infantry assaults were repulsed by the greatly outnumbered American-Filipino forces while across Manila Bay from Bataan concealed Japanese short batteries, which have been hammering at American island fortifications for three days, were subject to effective counter-fire...
...have been in action tell plenty of stories about the Japanese-how across the barbed wire in the forward positions the Nip dead are piled high. The stench is terrific. The Japs have been removing their dead by night and taking them by truckloads down to Manila...
...When Manila was abandoned, U.P.'s Frank Hewlett, the New York Times's Nat Floyd, Reuters' Curtis Hindson escaped by automobile, which roared over bridges a few moments before they were dynamited. A.P.'s Clark Lee, Melville Jacoby and wife Annalee* caught a small island freighter at midnight on New Year's Eve as the Manila docks went up in flames. Other correspondents including LIFE'S Photographer Carl Mydans and his wife Shelley (also a staff photographer) were, so far as is known, captured in Manila...
Exceptional correspondent is U.P.'s Frank Hewlett (former acting Manila bureau chief). Whereas the others hitchhike, he sports a Chevrolet sedan with a small Filipino chauffeur named Hoolio. Grinning Hoolio has been nicknamed the "Sage of Bataan...
...foot, 25-year-old Correspondent Jacoby, transferred from TIME'S Chungking bureau to Manila, two weeks before the Jap attack took a half day off to marry beauteous Annalee Whitmore, a Stanford fellow student who quit a Hollywood script-writing job to follow him to China...