News: William Winter on The Defense of Corregidor
February 13, 1942
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William Winter reports the news
  • Good news from the Pacific: General MacArthur has given the Japanese a whipping.
  • Winter gives a description of Bataan peninsula, Manila Bay, and Corregidor.
  • MacArthur was able to get bigger guns into the hill
  • The goal is not to hold the Philippines, but to delay the Japanese as long as possible.
  • Japanese strategy in the Dutch East Indies.
Satellite photo of Corregidor. It is the island shaped like a tadpole, situated at the entrance to Manila Bay
U.S. military personell in their bunker on Corregidor, c. March, 1942