Out of the Rock

Into a startled Army encampment on Corregidor last week strolled 20 smooth-faced, neatly dressed Japanese soldiers & sailors. Bowing politely, they surrendered.

Since its recapture by U.S. forces almost a year ago, they had lived comfortably in the labyrinth of the Rock, long a favored picnic spot for sightseeing Army & Navy tourists, eating buried stores of rice and dehydrated vegetables, coming out only at night for water--until, one day, they read in an old newspaper that the war was over.

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