(17RS/71RG)(SM47-Z-6)(1-0-7)(2-16-0830-1110)(24" 100'T.800') (CORREGIDOR INVASION)(438)(1-36)

. The part the Navy played in preparing the way for us was, of course, a major one-- in fact, this Asiatic-Pacific war has seemed to be largely a Navy show, to use the Australian phrase, with the Army as an auxiliary force and the Air Corps, land based or ocean borne, as a dominant element of naval power. The main strategy of the Corregidor operation was aimed at deception up to the last minute--a deception which would keep the Japs at their sea-wall defense until the sabre-stroke of a parachute attack could sweep down upon their heads. It was therefore planned that D Day (15 February) should be devoted to an amphibious landing at Marivales, a little village on the tip of the Bataan peninsular, only three miles across the bay from the guns of Corregidor. The 34th Infantry Regiment was selected to make the landing. No opposition was expected at Marivales, and none did occur, except for a little fire from five-inch guns in Corregidor's few remaining batteries. These were soon silenced.

 

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