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...MacArthur glared at each other across the swamps and swirling hills of Bataan Peninsula. All the rounds so far had gone to the Jap. But he had not landed a knockout blow. He sat down to wait and think. That was a mistake...
Smart as they come, General Douglas MacArthur used his outnumbered Americans and Filipino troops where-without airplanes and reinforcements-they could do the most damage. The 14-mile battle line across the peninsula curled suddenly: as viciously as the peninsula's king cobras, MacArthur's men struck down surprised outposts. In 48 hours the enemy had been thrown back from two-thirds of a mile to as much as five miles, on the right flank north of Pilar...
This War Department communique last week, like so many of its predecessors, was 100% terse pessimism. Douglas Mac-Arthur and his battle-weary, outnumbered troops were still holding Bataan Peninsula and Manila Bay's five defensive forts. But their collapse under ever-increasing enemy weight and ferocity seemed imminent as never before. With Singapore taken (see p. 18), the Jap's battering blows against Bataan's defenders were becoming heavier and more frequent...
...least 20 of the first class saw action in the fleet's recent raid on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands, and about nine are now stationed with MacArthur on Bataan Peninsula...
...troop ships and sweating armies were governing the world. Almost everywhere, politics had ceased to have a life of its own, had become the creature of fighting force. But in Vichy politics still governed the disposition of the world's last great inactive fleet; in the Iberian Peninsula, politics still kept great bases immobilized...