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Manila is only two thousand miles from Japan, but five thousand miles from Pearl Harbor. Heres What You Need To Remember: Outflanked and outmaneuvered, MacArthur ordered Plan Orange, a delaying action by rearguards while the bulk of his forces moved into the defenses of the Bataan Peninsula near Manila. Covered by detachments of U.S. and Filipino troops, including some M3 Stuart light tanks, eighty thousand troops and twenty thousand civilians made it into Bataan. “Tell Joe, wherever he is, ...

× PARENTS of vulnerable children at a special school have been ‘guilt-tripped’ into not sending their kids to classes, according to a fed-up father. Jonathan Wainwright, of Wath-upon-Dearne, is a campaigner for the Barnsley SEND Matters group and one of his three children, ten-year-old William, attends Greenacre on Keresforth Hill Road, Kingstone. Following the government’s announcement on Monday evening about school closures, a message was sent out ...

The world has not seen a weapon that without a bomb launched or a bullet fired could devastate economies of all nations on earth in one fell swoop, and render their citizenry dead or fearing for life itself. 2020, to paraphrase FDR, is a year that will live in infamy, and it is also the year when Neville Chamberlain reigned supreme. Indeed, no less than President Trump – who has stood taller than any before him, including, Richard M. Nixon, when he was a Communism-buster up until prior to his...

Former StarNews and Fayetteville Observer staff writer Kevin Maurer has written a gripping account of one of the Second World Wars forgotten battles. "Rock Force" is a must-read for military history buffs and could round off some last-minute Christmas lists. The "Rock" in this case is the island of Corregidor, a tadpole-shaped extinct volcano sitting in Manila Bay in the Philippines. For centuries, Corregidor stood as a natural fortress commanding the approaches to the port of Manila. When the ...

Finding More Than Humbug in Scrooge and Company This year a critic (and fan) of “A Christmas Carol” finds it especially resonant as a “timely study of what it truly means to be a decent person in a community.” Video Published Dec. 13, 2020Updated Dec. 16, 2020 When I was younger, I drank in every version of “A Christmas Carol” I could find like they were tumblers of eggnog. Eventually, I became a connoisseur. (I maintain the supremacy of “The Muppet Christmas Carol” and “Scro...