 the control of Manila Harbor with its great shipping facilities. Mountainous and rocky, Corregidor stretches across the entrance to Manila Bay. After Manila and Bataan, Corregidor was captured by the Japanese on May 6, 1942. Here, on that black day, after a four-month siege, the remnants of the American garrison were made prisoners. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright was forced to give his last reluctant command, surrender. Japanese troops in front of the army barracks on Corregidor took down the American flag and raised their own. And 10 months later, nearing the end of an 8,000-mile round trip, American paratroops on nearby Mindoro Island prepare for the recapture of Corregidor. Veterans of Pacific Airborne warfare since New Guinea, these parachute infantrymen will follow up days of air and sea bombardment of Corregidor and lead the man-to-man attack. Parachute a subjective on Corregidor is a small, flat area which was once a drill ground, a difficult target which must not be missed. Down to Corregidor, more troops jump on the island's western end. Jump in teams of 10, one team at a time, for almost two hours. Almost simultaneously, this same navy is smashing Iwo Jima 1,400 miles away and Tokyo 1,700 miles away and also grouping fast reserves for blows to come. Strafing fighters add finishing touches to the intensive combined bombardment. Eighth Army infantrymen head for the strip of shore at San Jose. With the paratroops already in command of the heights, the beach head ground assault moves in on a clockwork schedule. Joined together, the two units smashed back the Japanese in close combat. It is retaken. Manila Bay is reopened to United Nations shipping. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a welcome sight for this shipload of wounded American veterans of the fighting on the European front. Every one of 50,000 wounded brought back through New York. 25% are stretcher cases. The clearance of patience from overseas becomes a major function of the port of New York in a battle nearby. After months of battle front life, the return home is the finest medicine. America welcomes her wounded heroes and provides for the security of their future. In Washington, as Undersecretary of State Group resides, Mr. Oran H. Arrow, Chargé de Faire at Interim of Turkey, signs the pact of the United Nations on behalf of the Turkish government. The Honorable Mahmoud Hassan, Egyptian minister, also signs the pact. As representative of the government of Egypt, United Nations now include two distinguished newcomers. The common front against the enemy is strengthened. Farmers come over Ludwig's Lust in central Germany. The aerial phase of the Western front offensive amounts to full fury in an unprecedented single day of devastating attacks aimed at the entire Nazi transport system. Nuremberg, in this one day assault, 7,000 Allied planes, 40,000 Allied airmen reigned destruction on German war industry, supporting ground armies which now have crossed the river Rhine in force. Fighters joined the attack, catching enemy planes on the ground. Most every important German rail junction, this is the greatest Allied air offensive since the landings in Normandy. Military transport is crippled by tons of high explosives, delaying enemy counterattacks on the American bridgehead east of the Rhine. Behind this mighty aerosol, Allied ground armies will smash to their final objectives.