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...slow and agonizing and struck home the harder because Lieut. General Jonathan M. Wainwright's communiques were terse and professional. For 15 days the Jap struck at Bataan with everything he had. Dive-bombers blew great craters in forward positions. Artillery roared endlessly day & night; the nervous chatter of Jap machine guns rattled until it rasped men's nerves like a file. The Jap even struck again at the hospital, scattered the wounded like straws...
From dawn to dusk his bombers went over in flights of from three to 54. Mostly they left their cards at Corregidor, home address of Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright and keystone of the U.S. structure of resistance...
...except to keep the raiders high. From their foxholes on the mainland, infantry soldiers kept patrols out in no man's land to be sure that "Tojo" was keeping quiet. Probably in search of prisoners and information, a U.S. force plowed into the Jap lines, and "Skinny" Wainwright was able to report a successful brush...
...their hope of relief, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright's battle-grimed men on Bataan look to Australia and MacArthur. Yet if there is still hope that they can be saved, that hope is dawning, not in the south, but in the east. Bataan's relief is more likely to come from the broken lifeline between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, where the Navy's task forces are at work. Last week a task force under Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. put back into Pearl Harbor and told a cheering story...
West Pointer Wainwright knows all about Bushido, all about the treatment the Jap has already given to U.S. prisoners, particularly Filipinos. He gave the note the answer it deserved: he ignored it. Along the front the firing grew...