Word: olongapo
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...troops almost constantly. . . . Hostile artillery fire on our forts from positions on the Cavite shore continues. New enemy batteries in Bataan have increased the density of artillery fire on our positions. A fairly large convoy of Japanese troopships has arrived in Subic Bay and enemy reinforcements are landing at Olongapo...
Douglas MacArthur had chosen his position well. Only his left flank, on the sea south of the blackened ruins of Olongapo naval station, was exposed. The right lay on Manila Bay, and the guns of Corregidor still kept the bay clear of heavy Jap forces...
...left flank of the Army, now facing northeast, rested on the sea. Within its lines lay Subic Bay and the naval base at Olongapo, where a relieving force could be landed if it should come. Behind it, separated by only two miles of water lay Corregidor, a tadpole-shaped fortress in the mouth of Manila Bay, with its sandy low-lying tail pointed toward the city...
...artery of aid to China (see p. 27). But the Dutch were mobilized to the spit-&-polish point in Batavia; not only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo near Manila; the British had heavily reinforced Rangoon with British and Indian troops of all arms and services. In Bangkok, capital of little Thailand, tension was drumhead-tight in the place that might be the Belgium of a Far East war. The British attitude, as broadcast by Aberdeen Economist Lindley...
...Manila the air force was standing by; naval leaves were canceled. Leaves were canceled at Corregidor, the strong rock fortress guarding Manila Bay. Permanent blackout was ordered at the naval base at Cavite, at Olongapo, where the Navy has been mysteriously building. All British and U.S. forces in the Far East were put on the alert. In Manila naval messages jammed the radio, forced civil officials to use commercial cables. It was Manila's biggest war scare, and as the week went on, it grew...