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Crimson workhorse Jack Wallace coralled his fifth win of the current season Wednesday 7 to 4 at Newport, Rhode Island, but the big right-hander had to have help in the ninth when Melville PT Boat pushed across two quick scores, loaded the bases, and had the tying run on first base...
...then flashed the double-steal sign; and when Lindwirth grounded out, Crumrine came in to score, and Forte scampered all the way to third. Coppinger walked and as Allen slapped a single into left field scoring Forte, Phelps was rushed in to take up the pitching chores for the PT Boat nine. Wallace greeted him with a sharp single to right, which drove in Coppinger with the third run of the inning. Reed struck out the next two men to face him but the damage had been done, and Wallace had a four-run lead to work...
...returned to Corregidor in Lieut. Joseph Roberts' PT-373, much as he had left in Lieut, (now Commander) John Bulkeley's PT-41, almost 36 months before. Said MacArthur: "It has been a long way back...
...head of pollywog-shaped Corregidor, the paratroopers jumped in ten-man teams, one at a time, for almost two hours. Most came down on "Topside," the western plateau of the fortress islet, but some were carried by the wind over the cliffs into South Channel, where PT boats scurried to pick them up. The sky troopers took most of Corregidor's remaining guns from the rear...
...whose work was already done: the planning had been so complete that he had only a few short conferences with his staff. With satisfaction he told LIFE Photographer Carl Mydans: "This is the same route I followed when I came out of the Philippines in a PT boat . . . exactly that route...