[1] Later that day a platoon of United States Army Forces in the Far East troops arrived with orders to destroy the remaining boats to deny them to the enemy in anticipation of the assault on Fort Mills, Corregidor.
Together Lee and Wing planned to sail the Japanese blockade and pored over navigational charts and worked in concert to gain a nautical compass from the Yusang and oil drums from the Army engineers.
In Nov 1943, Commodore Eugene Wing and Hugo Herman Miller were captured during a major Japanese offensive against guerrilla and resistance forces throughout the Philippines.
[citation needed] Following the Battle of Manila in 1945, conductor/composer and Holocaust survivor Herbert Zipper held a victory concert in the ruins of Santa Cruz Cathedral.
[citation needed] The military reviewer of the concert, William J. Dunn, recorded that on 10 May 1945, Herbert Zipper fulfilled the vow he had conceived at Dachau concentration camp seven years prior to commemorate the downfall of the Nazi regime with a performance of Beethoven's 3rd Symphony "Eroica".