Posted on 05/05/2016 11:55:05 AM PDT by Oatka
Lest We Forget - Corregidor Surrenders May 6, 1942
After reading those postcards, i would have been wetting my pants during the night. Tough men.
too bad about the A bombs. or so kerry and obummer would say.
I wonder if he made it?
“...obummer would say.”
He would have invited the Japanese to the White House and apologized for the resistance from the racist defenders.
God bless American patriots who died for our sake.
Thank you for posting and remembering.
Must have been a helluva six months. Fighting, waiting, hoping; perfectly captured in the bitter little ditty. A different breed of men than we have now.
Irving Stobing made it home alive.
Tough to type, eyes leaking.
Thanks.
Back then, America knew what to do with barbarians.
My dad did, barely - death march then 4 years in forced labor prison camp.
His story, similar to many others. He never bought a japanese car in his life.
The saddest thing I heard my mother say, was after the communist usurper took power, was that she was glad Dad had died so he didn’t have to see what America had become.
My junior high math teacher was on Corregidor when it fell.
He spent the rest of the war in a Manchurian POW camp.
The stories he shared with us were horrific
Wow! I met a Bataan survivor. He never really wanted to talk about it.
Around the same time, the Japanese carrier Shokaku was heavily damaged at Coral Sea and almost sank when her captain drove her too hard back to base for repair.
Another one, recorded by a member of the Minnesota company of the 192nd Tank Bn:
“Dugout Doug’s not timid, he’s just cautious not afraid
He’s protecting carefully the stars that Roosevelt has made
Four star generals are as rare as good food on Bataan
And his troops go starving on”
Yeah, he did:
Irving Strobing, Radio Operator on Corregidor, Dies at 77 (1997)
Met a guy in Walmart with a survivor hat from Corregedor. Wonderful guy.
Thank you
Thank you for the article.
The vastly overrated MacArthur disobeyed a direct order and refused to fortify the Bataan Peninsula.
He should have been court-martialed and broken.
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