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WRI * KI l HI MINDER: twisted steel frirdcra are a battle-scarred monument to the battle of (orrcgidor during World War II. This picture shows the top floor of the headquarters barracks buildingswhere American troops were billeted. -Battle-Seared Corregidor Tourist Attraction TodayBy TONY E8CODACORREGIDOR ISLAND, Philip* (APi — Sunday visitorssplash in the surf, sun themselves on the beach or fish from the shell-scarred docks on this tadpole-shaped island guarding Manila Bay.Elsewhere on Corregidor ah is quiet. The jungle has grown back over tunnels and gun emplacements in the hills. Often the only sign of life is an occasional snake slithering through the tail gra.-.-.A newly built tourist lodge sitsOn the hill called “Topside, Scrawled in charcoal on one wall MacArthur’s old command post is this message from an unknown still stands, an empty shell gutted soldier; by Japanese artillery fire. “Never say die.”★ ★ ★★ ★ ★on a rise a half mile from thespot where Japanese troops swept ashore in May, 1942, to stamp out the last spark of Allied resistance in Southeast Asia.Before that, Corregidor and Bataan Peninsula, aero-- the bay i.o the north, were the only allied out-I-0-is left m the wake ot the Javanese juggernaut.The ragtag army of 12.000 Americans and Filipino-, on Cor*rcgidor had already beaten backone major onslaught and were fighting on despite the rain of bombs and shells that spatteredthe island daily.For a time the Free Philippine government ruled from gioomy Malinta tunnel and its network of laterals, cfug out of Corregidor’s bedrock, and from here a lonely Voice of Freedom broadcast each day.But by April, Bataan — with Corregidor, the key to Gen. Dougin- MacArthur'.s defense of the Philippines — had friion. Ammunition for Corrcgidor’s big guns had run out. So had food and medicine. *The hospital wards inside linta were crammed with sick and wounded, many of whom were to M d,. '.ater during the Death March v to concentration camps on Luzon, ti The Philippine government, with v Gen. MacArthur and his staff, es* ca|ed to Australia.Tin big Japarn se push finally ca no, and this time there waa ylittle to stop it.It ended on May ti when Gen. n J« . n Watnwright Minendered. wTlio “Voice of Freedom“ went off*t111J1I1!tii4 -W. a-'aSIWWW. iltEdjb.lll.lyjA 8HOWPLACE TODAY: Tourists inspect 12-infh American mor tars rusted in their last firing position—toward Bataan.nr 9HHI :'w,,4 1 *1tlthe air and the big Rock flt;si-Ic0The silence today is more humdrum. punctuated by the laughter f of tourists who come over on the j Sunday excursion boats They are shown around by the only soldiers left on Corregidor — a handful of Philippine marines on routine se- lcurity duty. ■The island is technically a memorial ground, but only a few tablets and markers have been erected. Few are needed.The site of the Japanese landing is clearly marked by trees andshrubbery, tarn by shrapnel,which haven’t bloomed since. jThe 21$ batteries still have their ] 12-inch coastal guns and mortars, I;Alt;Jrusted barrels in the same ipositioo if when they were(A third of Malinta tunnel's 825- , foot length has caved in, but -j th erf's room enough for sight- I ffNNBfs and a sign that read,-. ‘’Head* !fluarItfi, IJMlpd Status Fmtm in athe PMIIfpte©#*** . ..
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Dover Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio, US
Thu, Dec 03, 1959
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