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ROCK FORCE - The All -American Team
Retakes Corregidor -
by Paul Whitman and David Metherell Standard Landscape 10x8 in, 25x20 cm format, 280 pages. OTHER VERSIONS OF THIS BOOK Fixed-layout eBook, 280 pages Instant PDF Version - Viewable on any device
History has a way of reviving events in a wholly different mood from
that in which they took place. I shall not belabour the obvious
Corregidor legend, but it is worthwhile to point out one or two features
which deserve emphasis.
One of the most dramatic aspects of Corregidor is that it
completed a full cycle in which the two belligerents reversed the roles
of defense and assault. Each garrisoned the fortress against
overwhelming odds, and each attacked it with overpowering forces. These
events offer an interesting study in contrasts, from which the
tremendous superiority of American tactics, methods, and characteristics
is clearly demonstrated.
In 1942 the American garrison made its epic defense of the
island, outnumbered, outgunned, unsupported, and deprived of any hope of
relief, our men held the post for four bitter weeks after Bataan's fall.
Amid th' encircling gloom,
men fought on here with unfaltering devotion. Long after they knew that
victory would be denied them, they hung on out of pure loyalty to the
ideals of their birth. Ultimately, they were surrendered in a forlorn hope
of humanitarian treatment. In the three years that followed, many became
heroes, and a few, a too precious few, became survivors.
In 1945, when America returned as an attacking force, the
positions were amazingly reversed. The island was taken in less than two
weeks. The depths of defeat
were vindicated, at last, by an equally spectacular victory. In both
extremes, citizens in uniform demonstrated their capacity to meet with
triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters both the same.
They fought to bring back with them something more glorious than
triumph. They brought back the hope of an American peace, "Pax
Americana."
Perhaps it is best that the realities of Corregidor might merge
into a legend of supreme self-sacrifice and invincible accomplishment.
Today the sons and daughters of America, like their fathers and
grandfathers, face the
reality of a new war, a war intended to defeat the liberty of thought.
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