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...Manila: Manila this evening was very tense, the city faintly outlined from the shadows of smoldering fires started in the noontime raid....Civilians are assuming wartime posts of censorship, patrols, supplies, guarding, nursing, doctoring, evacuating, bandage-making....I watched half a dozen dogfights and saw at least two enemies downed....The Filipinos were good and spirited....Talking to already stubble-bearded, grimy Yank soldiers at undisclosed posts: "I'd like another crack at those low-flying bastards. Write my mother I'm a hero. I'll stay here. I'll stick it out."...Night sounds: howling...
...Clark Field alongside Fort Stotsenberg, 50 miles northwest of Manila, the gun crews had just finished their noonday Monday dinner when the Jap struck. Well-trained but combat-raw, the gunners spotted a precise formation of 52 planes high in the blue sky. They watched, began to wonder. Then they knew...
...Through that day and the following days, the Jap struck in many places from the air. He bombed Nichols Field, just south of Manila, time & again; in one raid alone he lost eleven planes. He struck at Cavite, the Navy's base on Manila's south harbor; there he wrought heavy damage, barely missed the base's commander, weather-beaten Rear Admiral Francis Rockwell...
...Monday NBC broadcast two recordings of previous programs-the third and fourth time it has ever done so. One was President Roosevelt's speech before Congress. The other was an eyewitness account of Manila under Japanese bombers by the moonlight of early morning. And on Monday, too, since radio is a two-way affair, the Office of the Coordinator of Information (Colonel Donovan) suggested to all U.S. short-wave stations that in reporting news to Europe they "make no attempt to gloss over the gravity of the first day's losses of the U.S. in the Pacific...
...Manila Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur called in all correspondents a few days before fighting began, promised ringside seats in event of war, provided they were willing to risk being killed...