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Slack.com slash DHQ. Jane loved crisps. She ate them for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Even at fancy-pants restaurants. Your crisps, madam. Years went by, but then crisps stopped

doing it for her. They got her thrown out of cinemas. And were forever in the bedsheets.

crisps. They're kind of like your current account. Just because they were good ones doesn't

mean you have to stick with them forever. Maybe it's time to switch with the current account

switch service. After the Philippines fell to the Japanese, a few of the American officers,

now prisoners, were able to talk about their battles. And given their circumstances, there

was no reason to hold back. Brigadier General Clifford Blumel, commander of the 31st Division,

spoke to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright, who gave his view of the entire war for the Philippines.

Quote, our units were doomed before they started to fight. They never had a chance to win.

That they lasted as long as they did is a stirring and touching tribute to their gallantry

and fortitude. Hello, and thank you for listening to the history of World War II podcast, episode

314, The Battle of Baton. Setting the stage as defensive grounds went, Baton was actually

one of the best. After all, the peninsula only had two main north-south roads, one on each coast.

Though the one to the east had more relatively flat land, hence that coast had to be watched

closely. As for the peninsula itself, Baton is about 25 miles long and 15 miles wide. However,

all that was dominated by several mountain ranges, again all to the good for the defenders.

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