Cruelty: Not Every American Effort in the Pacific Was Victorious
The fall of Corregidor forces us to ask a tough question: what went wrong? The answer is pretty much everything.
Here s What You Need To Remember: And then there was silence.
“Tell Joe, wherever he is, to give ’em hell for us,” said the radio signal. “My love to you all. God bless you and keep you. Sign my name, and tell mother how you heard from me. Stand by.”
And then there was silence.
On the morning of May 6, 1942, U.S. Army Sgt. Irving Strobing sent the last message to America, his family and his brother Joe from the fortress of Corregidor, an island at the mouth of Manila Bay. A few hours later, under the cameras of Japanese photographers and the contemptuous glare of Japanese officers, Gen. Jonathan Wainwright surrendered the last of the U.S. garrison in the Philippines.
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