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1 Rad, Wainwright to MacArthur, No. 218, 13 Apr 42, AG 384.1, GHQ SWPA.

2 Rad, MacArthur to Marshall, No. 228, 13 Apr 42, AG 384.3, GHQ SWPA.

3 14th Army Opns, I, 174.

4 This description of Japanese plans and preparations is based upon: 14th Army Opns, I, 173-210; II, Annexes 7-12; 5th Air Gp Opns, pp. 78-84; USA vs. Homma, pp. 3089-94, 3178-79, testimony of Homma, p. 2635-63, testimony of Gen Kitajima, Arty Officer, 14th Army.

5 Statement of Col Yoshida, 28 Jul 49, ATIS Doc 62642, Statements of Japanese Officials on World War II, GHQ FEC, Mil Intel Sec, IV, 551.

6 14th Army Opns, I, 170.

7 Statement of Yoshida, 28 Jul 49, ATIS Doc 62642, Statements of Japanese Officials on World War II, GHQ FEC, Mil Intel Sec, IV, 551.

8 Statement of Lt Col Hiromi Oishi, 4th Div Staff, 2 Oct 50, ATIS Doc 62639, ibid., III, 115.

9 14th Army Opns, I, 174.

10 Ibid., 170.

11 Ibid., 178. A balloon company consisted of about 150 men, 25 vehicles, and 1 observation balloon. The artillery intelligence regiment was a sound and flash unit, consisting of a headquarters group, a survey unit, a plotting unit with nine plotting stations and a sound detector unit with six listening posts. The regiment was commanded by a lieutenant colonel and had about 675 men. Handbook of Japanese Military Forces, TM-E-30-480, 15 Sep 44, p. 47.

12 USA vs. Homma, p. 2651, testimony of Kitajima.

13 Ibid., p. 3089, testimony of Homma.

14 Ibid., p. 3090, testimony of Homma.

15 Ibid., pp. 2845-47, testimony of Col Shusuke Horiguchi, Med Officer, 14th Army.

16 Collier, Notebooks, IV, 20. Collier, who had gone forward with a Japanese officer on 9 April to carry the news of the surrender to General Funk, had been taken to 14th Army headquarters later and there met General Homma.

17 USA vs. Homma, pp. 2465-67, 3081-82, testimony of Homma; interv, Col Walter E. Buchly with Homma, Manila, Mar 46; Drake, Comments on Draft MS, Comment 17, OCMH; Statement of Maj Kiyoshi Onuma, 4th Div Staff, 8 Aug 49, ATIS Doc 62640, Statements of Japanese Officials on World War II, GHQ FEC, Mil Intel Sec, III, 157. "I remember," said Onuma, "that it took until about 1 or 2 May to bring landing craft to Manila Bay."

18 14th Army Opns, II, 72.

19 Prov Tank Gp Rpt of Opns, p. 26; interv, Col Buchly with Homma, Manila, Mar 46. General Drake states that even after they took Corregidor, the Japanese were seeking the entrance on the Corregidor side of the tunnel. Drake, Comments on Draft MS, Comment 18, OCMH.

20 Statement of Oishi, 2 Oct 50, ATIS Doc 62639, Statements of Japanese Officials on World War II, GHQ FEC, Mil Intel Sec, III, 115.

21 14th Army Opns, I, 198.

22 Ibid., 195.

23 Hopkins, Personal and Official Notes of Btry C, 60th CA (AA), entry of 9 Apr 42, copy in OCMH.

24 Wainwright, General Wainwright's Story, p. 85.

25 This account of the beach defenses of Corregidor is based upon: Howard, 4th Marines Rpt of Opns, pp. 10-19, USMC Hist Sec; Baldwin, "The Fourth Marines at Corregidor," Part 1, Marine Corps Gazette (November 1946), pp. 13-18, Part 2 (December 1946), p. 30; Maj Harold E. Dalness, Opns of the Prov Bn, 4th Marines (paper prepared for the Advanced Officers Course, 1949-50, The Infantry School), pp. 4-7; Beach Defense Arty Tabulation, Exhibit G of Harbor Defenses Rpt of Opns.

26 Howard, 4th Marines Rpt of Opns, p. 10, USMC Hist Sec.

27 Lt. Comdr. T. C. Parker, "The Epic of Corregidor-Bataan," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, LXIX, No. 1 (January 1943), 12.

28 Howard, 4th Marines Rpt of Opns, p. 16, USMC Hist. Sec.

29 Dalness, Opns of Prov Bn, 4th Marines, p. 7.

30 Howard, 4th Marines Rpt of Opns, p. 16, USMC Hist Sec.

31 The Siege of Corregidor, Mil Rpts on UN, No. 12, 15 Nov 43, p. 50, MID WD.

32 Hopkins, Personal and Official Notes of Btry C, 60th CA (AA), entry of 19 Mar 42, p. 185. The diary notation was probably made by the battery commander, Captain Ames.

33 Quoted in Baldwin, "The Fourth Marines at Corregidor," Part 2, Marine Corps Gazette (December 1946), p. 33.

34 Cooper, Med Dept Activities, p. 83.

35 Gulick, Memoirs of Btry C, 91st CA (PS), p. 122, copy in OCMH.

36 The Siege of Corregidor, Mil Rpts on UN, No. 12, 15 Nov 43, pp. 43, 50, MID WD.

37 Lt Col Earl L. Barr, Hist of Btry M, 60th CA (AA), p. 8, copy in OCMH. See also Gulick Memoirs of Btry C, 91st CA (PS), p. 155.

38 Bunker, Diary, entry of 2 Apr 42.

39 The Siege of Corregidor, Mil Rpts on UN, No. 12, 15 Nov 43, pp. 42, 45, MID WD.

40 Baldwin, "The Fourth Marines at Corregidor," Part 2, Marine Corps Gazette (December 1946), p. 32; Barr, Hist of Btry M, 60th CA (AA), p. 4.

41 Barr, Btry M, 60th CA (AA), p. 4.

42 Bunker, Diary, entry of 28 Apr 42.

43 Barr, Btry M, 60th CA (AA), p. 6.

44 The Siege of Corregidor, Mil Rpts on UN, No. 12, 15 Nov 43, p. 43, MID WD.

45 Knoll, Intel Rpt, 16th Naval Dist, 12 Mar-3 May 42, p. 10; Drake, Comments on Draft MS, Comment 22, OCMH; ltr, Rockwell to Ward, 18 Jan 52, OCMH. Admiral Rockwell states that to the best of his recollection Army and Navy food had been pooled long before the end of the campaign, but he does not give the date.

46 Harbor Defenses Rpt of Opns, p. 42; Col Chester H. Elmes, QM Opns, Fort Mills, pp. 2-3, App. F of QM Rpt of Opns.

47 Wainwright, General Wainwright's Story, p. 72; Harbor Defenses Rpt of Opns, p. 50.


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