> Early in the week San Francisco's shortwave station KGEI had Mrs. Jonathan Wainwright broadcast a message of good cheer to "Skinny," accompanied by three wagging woofs from the General's pet Labrador Retriever. When the end of Bataan came, KGEI's "Freedom for the Philippines" rose to the occasion with a solemnity by which the grim survivors on Corregidor were moved to tears: "The world will long remember the epic struggle the Filipinos and Americans put up. . . . But what sustained them through all these months of incessant battle was a force more than physical. It was the thought of...
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