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Late last month Mauna Loa grumbled, heaved. The volcano erupted suddenly in great fiery fountains of lava. They spurted 600 ft. in the air, lighting the clouds above blacked-out Hawaii, rolled in a torrent of molten rock down the slopes to the city and harbor of Hilo 30 miles away...
...caliber, flat trajectory pieces hurled their projectiles screaming into The Rock's gun positions and galleries and shelters. His mortars and howitzers looped great shells high in the air. With all his observation points on surrounding shores, the Jap could not miss...
...ammunition was about gone, the food had run out. The wounded, crowded into the catacombs of The Rock, cried out for help that no one could give. Malaria had seized the garrison; gaunt cannoneers, flushed with fever, stood at their stations beside pieces that had to be served with telltale economy...
Thirteen Raids. In the last few days, the Jap hit the defenders with everything he had. For four days in a row The Rock and its three satellite forts took 13 bombing raids a day. Meanwhile from Cavite, to the south, and from Mariveles' heights, north of The Rock, the Jap poured in a merciless artillery fire, 24 hours...
...Australia, where a few of Corregidor's old garrison were leading a new fight, The Rock's fall struck deep, even though, like the fall of Bataan, it had been inevitable. Officers there thought not of the troops the Jap could now free for other areas, not of Manila's fine harbor, now open for a Jap base. They thought of the cheerful, undaunted soldiers they had left behind. Wrote Douglas MacArthur...