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| Tango01 | 13 Nov 2019 9:48 p.m. PST |
… of the Bataan Death March to the Outside World "ON MAY 6, 1943, a weary U.S. Navy officer in tattered khakis staggered to a radio transmitter located deep behind enemy lines in the occupied Philippines and began tapping out a message. As the words flowed from Lieutenant Commander Melvyn McCoy's experienced fingertips, his exhaustion turned to exhilaration. It was exactly one year to the day since the fall of the fortress island of Corregidor. Amazingly, McCoy, as the embattled outpost's communications officer, had authored the last official radiogram sent before "the Rock" was overrun by Imperial Japanese forces. That brief, fading bulletin, sent during America's darkest hour of World War Two, carried only as far as Honolulu. It said simply: "GOING OFF AIR NOW. GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK."…"
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