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...became quite attached to you, and the last I heard from my roommate, he was still reading your pages whenever he wasn't flying at Nichols Field, Manila...
...night, while U.S. troops huddled in their positions, some sleeping, some watching, and machine guns chattered fitfully in the advanced positions, the searchlights of Corregidor probed the shadows of Manila Bay for Japs. By day the jungles awoke and monkeys in the trees jibbered shrilly above the shouts of fighting men, the slam of big field pieces...
Near week's end Corregidor's big coast-defense guns, commanding Manila Bay, went into action for the first time...
Like Hong Kong and Manila before it, Singapore awaited its fate. Its tree-covered oval island, 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, is separated from the giraffe-like neck of the Malay Peninsula and the oncoming Jap by the mile-wide Strait of Johore. Around the big island on the sea side are scores of tiny islands, on most of which lie camouflaged coastal artillery positions...
...Shogun of Japan, then busy extirpating Christianity with fire and sword, loaded 134 "converted Christians" on a ship and sent them to the Spanish missionaries in Manila with a letter saying: "If it is converts you want, begin with these." They turned out to be lepers, soon spread the disease. Before 1632 there was no leprosy in the Philippines...