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Bataan CallingN April 9. 1942, American soldiersraised the white flag of Surrenderon Bataan. American:: soldierswrote that black chapter in ou*r historywith their blood. *iGeneral Mac Arthur, under orders, leftVCorregidor. which fell soon after, and went to Australia. That's wher0 the roadback to Bataan began. jStep by step, island by island, our Allied armies and navies hav£ fought their way back, through roaming surf breaking on coral reefs under’ a thundering umbrella of covering n-.ival fire, through ret'.ing jungles with the‘ominous green silence broken only by ithe eerie call of strange birds and thd sibilant crack of a Jap sniper's bullet.\Now we stand on Biak Island, onetime Japanese base in the jSchouten Islands group, just 900 miles Jrom the Philippines That 900 miles ilt; a long way as we measure distances lt;|n European battle fronts. iBut down there in the Pacific?, with its vast stretches, 900 miles is nearjby. Airmen will know what it mearjs to get bomber bases that close. A fcompara-v small load of bombs coiicentratedor. one vital Japanese position ofjen means the way is cleared for a landing.When Mac Arthur reached fUistralia, his face lined with fatigue but^his voice_____ y. he promised to return to thePhilippines and swore “to .keep thesoldiers* faith.*’ *And after the Biak landings! he confidently declared : “We now' baie secured bases of departure for advances to vital s in the Philippines and ifhe DutchEast Indies.” tThe men of Bataan are waiting.Iit
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New York Stars and Stripes
New York, New York, US
Mon, May 29, 1944
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