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...your issue of TIME, April 13, and the issue of LIFE for the same date, identical pictures appear of a group of Marines said to have been taken somewhere on Bataan Peninsula, Luzon...
...this makes it hard for me to understand why the Japanese were able to fight their way down the Malayan Peninsula so quickly," he added...
...following is an excerpt from a letter written on Feb. 14 during the heroic defense of Bataan Peninsula by Lieut. Colonel James E. Macklin, U.S. Quartermaster Corps, to his wife in San Francisco. She followed the instruction given in the last sentence...
...that the end was near. From the shores of the Bay he withdrew his naval forces, sailormen and Marines of the 4th Regiment (evacuated last November from Shanghai) to Corregidor. He tried to strike one last blow. Against a Jap breakthrough on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula he threw a corps in desperate counterattack. It was too much. The glassy-eyed soldiers went forward like men in a dream, so exhausted that many of them could hardly lift their feet, and the Jap mowed them down. The flank folded...
...numbers. The Japanese pierced the defenders' left center and began to pour through. But a noise came up angrily to meet the noise: the defenders closed their line, pocketing many Japanese behind them. Later the Japanese tried to land from barges on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula, and came noisily once more against the defenders' right center...