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Battle of Corregidor

Index Battle of Corregidor

The Battle of Corregidor, fought on 5–6 May 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. [1]

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  1. 79 relations: Angels of Bataan, Bataan, Battle of Bataan, Battle of Corregidor (1945), Caballo Island, Cabanatuan, Chicago, Chicago River, Coastal artillery, Commonwealth of the Philippines, Connecticut Route 185, Consolidated PBY Catalina, Controlled mines, Corregidor, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Empire of Japan, Farmington River, Fort Drum (Philippines), Fort Frank, Fort Hughes, Fort Mills, Fort Wint, Fourteenth Area Army, George F. Moore (United States Army officer), Gibraltar, Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, History of the Philippine Army, Imperial General Headquarters, Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, Jonathan M. Wainwright (general), Kevin Witkos, Luzon, Malinta Tunnel, Manila, Manila Bay, Marines' Hymn, Masaharu Homma, Mediterranean Sea, Mindanao, Naval Base Manila, New Bilibid Prison, Olongapo, Pacific War, Paul Bunker, Philippine Department, Philippines, Philippines campaign (1941–1942), Prisoner of war, ... Expand index (29 more) »

  2. 1942 in the Philippines
  3. Battles and operations of World War II involving the Philippines
  4. Corregidor
  5. History of Cavite
  6. May 1942 events
  7. Philippines in World War II
  8. United States military in the Philippines

Angels of Bataan

The Angels of Bataan (also known as the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor" and "The Battling Belles of Bataan") were the members of the United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurse Corps who were stationed in the Philippines at the outset of the Pacific War and served during the Battle of the Philippines (1941–1942). Battle of Corregidor and Angels of Bataan are 1942 in the Philippines.

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Bataan

Bataan, officially the Province of Bataan (Lalawigan ng Bataan), is a province in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines.

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Battle of Bataan

The Battle of Bataan (Labanan sa Bataan; January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Imperial Japan during World War II. Battle of Corregidor and Battle of Bataan are 1942 in the Philippines, Battles and operations of World War II involving the Philippines, last stands and United States Marine Corps in World War II.

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Battle of Corregidor (1945)

The Battle for the Recapture of Corregidor (Filipino: Labanan para sa Corregidor), which occurred from 16 to 26 February, 1945, pitted American forces against the defending Japanese garrison on the island fortress. Battle of Corregidor and Battle of Corregidor (1945) are Corregidor and history of Cavite.

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Caballo Island

Caballo Island (which means "Horse Island" in Spanish) is a bluff, rocky island located at the entrance to Manila Bay in the Philippines. Battle of Corregidor and Caballo Island are United States military in the Philippines.

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Cabanatuan

Cabanatuan, officially the City of Cabanatuan (Lungsod ng Cabanatuan; Siudad ti Cabanatuan; Kapampangan: Lakanbalen/Ciudad ning Cabanatuan), is a 1st class component city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago River

The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop).

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Coastal artillery

Coastal artillery is the branch of the armed forces concerned with operating anti-ship artillery or fixed gun batteries in coastal fortifications.

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Commonwealth of the Philippines

The Commonwealth of the Philippines (Mancomunidad de Filipinas; Komonwelt ng Pilipinas) was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States that existed from 1935 to 1946.

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Connecticut Route 185

Route 185 is a Connecticut state highway in the western Hartford suburbs, running from Simsbury to West Hartford.

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Consolidated PBY Catalina

The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Controlled mines

A controlled mine was a circuit fired weapon used in coastal defenses with ancestry going back to 1805 when Robert Fulton termed his underwater explosive device a torpedo: Robert Fulton invented the word torpedo to describe his underwater explosive device and successfully destroyed a ship in 1805.

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Corregidor

Corregidor (Pulo ng Corregidor) is an island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in the southwestern part of Luzon in the Philippines, and is considered part of Cavite City and thus the province of Cavite. Battle of Corregidor and Corregidor are United States military in the Philippines.

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Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) is the official reference work for the basic facts about ships used by the United States Navy.

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Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines

On 11 March 1942, during World War II, General Douglas MacArthur and members of his family and staff left the Philippine island of Corregidor, where his forces were surrounded by the Japanese. Battle of Corregidor and Douglas MacArthur's escape from the Philippines are 1942 in the Philippines.

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Edwin Palmer Hoyt

Edwin Palmer Hoyt Jr. (August 5, 1923 – July 29, 2005) was an American writer and historian who specialized in military history.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Farmington River

The Farmington River is a river, U.S. Geological Survey.

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Fort Drum (Philippines)

Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island (Pulo ng El Fraile), is a heavily fortified island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island. Battle of Corregidor and fort Drum (Philippines) are United States military in the Philippines.

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Fort Frank

Fort Frank (Carabao Island, the Philippines) was one of the defense forts at the entrance to Manila Bay established by the United States. Battle of Corregidor and fort Frank are history of Cavite and United States military in the Philippines.

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Fort Hughes

Fort Hughes was built by the Philippine Department of the U.S. Army on Caballo Island in the Philippines in the early 1900s. Battle of Corregidor and Fort Hughes are history of Cavite.

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Fort Mills

Fort Mills (Corregidor, the Philippines) was the location of US Major General George F. Moore's headquarters for the Philippine Department's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in early World War II, and was the largest seacoast fort in the Philippines. Battle of Corregidor and fort Mills are Corregidor, history of Cavite and United States military in the Philippines.

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Fort Wint

Fort Wint was part of the harbor defenses of Manila and Subic Bays built by the Philippine Department of the United States Army between 1907 and 1920 in response to recommendations of the Taft Board prior to the non-fortification clause of the Washington Naval Treaty. Battle of Corregidor and Fort Wint are United States military in the Philippines.

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Fourteenth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.

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George F. Moore (United States Army officer)

George Fleming Moore (July 31, 1887 – December 2, 1949) was a decorated officer of the United States Army with the rank of major general.

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Gibraltar

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory and city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean (Strait of Gibraltar).

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Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays

The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays ("Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays" until 1925) (a.k.a. CD/HD Manila Bay) were a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command, part of the Philippine Department of the United States Army from circa 1910 through early World War II. Battle of Corregidor and harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays are Corregidor.

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History of the Philippine Army

The history of the Philippine Army began in December 21, 1935, as the Army of the Philippines, with a general headquarters in Manila, and units and formations based throughout the provinces of the Philippines.

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Imperial General Headquarters

The was part of the Supreme War Council and was established in 1893 to coordinate efforts between the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during wartime.

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Imperial Japanese Army Air Service

The Imperial Japanese Army Air Service (IJAAS) or Imperial Japanese Army Air Force (IJAAF; lit) was the aviation force of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).

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Jonathan M. Wainwright (general)

Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV (August 23, 1883 – September 2, 1953) was an American army general and the Commander of Allied forces in the Philippines at the time Japan surrendered to the United States, during World War II.

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Kevin Witkos

Kevin Witkos (born 1964 or 1965) is a Republican member of the Connecticut State Senate, representing the 8th District since 2009.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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Malinta Tunnel

The Malinta Tunnel is a tunnel complex built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines. Battle of Corregidor and Malinta Tunnel are 1942 in the Philippines, Corregidor and United States military in the Philippines.

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Manila

Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.

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Manila Bay

Manila Bay (Look ng Maynila) is a natural harbor that serves the Port of Manila (on Luzon), in the Philippines.

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Marines' Hymn

The "Marines' Hymn" is the official hymn of the United States Marine Corps, introduced by the first director of the USMC Band, Francesco Maria Scala.

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Masaharu Homma

was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Mindanao

Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of the same name that also includes its adjacent islands, notably the Sulu Archipelago.

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Map of Manila, Naval Base Manila is at Cavite in Manila Bay Naval Base Manila, Naval Air Base Manila was a major United States Navy base south of the City of Manila, on Luzon Island in the Philippines.

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New Bilibid Prison

The New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila is the main insular prison designed to house the prison population of the Philippines.

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Olongapo

Olongapo, officially the City of Olongapo (Lungsod ng Olongapo; Siudad ti Olongapo; Siyodad nin Olongapo; Kapampangan: Lakanbalen/Ciudad ning Olongapo), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines.

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Pacific War

The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

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Paul Bunker

Paul Delmont Bunker (May 7, 1881 – March 16, 1943) was an American football player and soldier.

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Philippine Department

The Philippine Department (Filipino: Kagawaran ng Pilipinas/Hukbong Kagawaran ng Pilipinas) was a regular United States Army organization whose mission was to defend the Philippine Islands and train the Philippine Army. Battle of Corregidor and Philippine Department are United States military in the Philippines.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Philippines campaign (1941–1942)

The Philippines campaign (Kampanya sa Pilipinas, Campaña en las Filipinas del Ejercito Japonés, Firipin no Tatakai), also known as the Battle of the Philippines (Labanan sa Pilipinas) or the Fall of the Philippines, was the invasion of the American territory of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan and the defense of the islands by United States and the Philippine Armies during World War II. Battle of Corregidor and Philippines campaign (1941–1942) are 1942 in the Philippines and United States Marine Corps in World War II.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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PT boat

A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II.

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Roxas Boulevard

Roxas Boulevard is a popular waterfront promenade in Metro Manila in the Philippines.

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Samuel L. Howard

Samuel Lutz Howard (March 8, 1891 – October 12, 1960) was a United States Marine Corps general who served with distinction in the Marine Corps for thirty-eight years.

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Santo Tomas Internment Camp

Santo Tomas Internment Camp, also known as the Manila Internment Camp, was the largest of several camps in the Philippines in which the Japanese interned enemy civilians, mostly Americans, in World War II.

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Simsbury, Connecticut

Simsbury is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, incorporated as Connecticut's 21st town in May 1670.

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Subic Bay

Subic Bay is a bay on the west coast of the island of Luzon in the Philippines, about northwest of Manila Bay.

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Type 45 240 mm howitzer

The was a siege gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War I and World War II.

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Type 96 15 cm howitzer

The was a 149.1 mm calibre howitzer used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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U.S. Naval Base Subic Bay

Naval Base Subic Bay was a major ship-repair, supply, and rest and recreation facility of the Spanish Navy and subsequently the United States Navy located in Zambales, Philippines.

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United States Army Air Forces

The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947).

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United States Army Center of Military History

The United States Army Center of Military History (CMH) is a directorate within the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command.

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United States Army Forces in the Far East

United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) (Filipino: Hukbong Katihan ng Estados Unidos sa Malayong Silangan; Spanish: Fuerzas del Ejército de los Estados Unidos en el Lejano Oriente) was a military formation of the United States Army active from 1941 to 1946. Battle of Corregidor and United States Army Forces in the Far East are United States military in the Philippines.

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United States Asiatic Fleet

The United States Asiatic Fleet was a fleet of the United States Navy during much of the first half of the 20th century.

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USS Pigeon (ASR-6)

The first USS Pigeon (AM-47/ASR-6) was a ''Lapwing''-class minesweeper of the United States Navy.

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USS Spearfish

USS Spearfish (SS-190), a ''Sargo''-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the spearfish, any of several large, powerful, pelagic fishes of the genus Tetrapturus allied to the marlins and sailfishes.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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10-inch gun M1895

The 10-inch Gun M1895 (254 mm) and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.

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12-inch coast defense mortar

The 12-inch coast defense mortar was a weapon of caliber emplaced during the 1890s and early 20th century to defend US harbors from seaborne attack.

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12-inch gun M1895

The 12-inch coastal defense gun M1895 (305 mm) and its variants the M1888 and M1900 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.

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14-inch gun M1907

The 14-inch Gun M1907 (356 mm) and its variants the M1907MI, M1909, and M1910 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945.

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3-inch gun M1903

The 3-inch gun M1903 and its predecessors the M1898 and M1902 were rapid fire breech-loading artillery guns with a 360-degree traverse.

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4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)

The was an infantry division in the Imperial Japanese Army.

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4th Marine Regiment

The 4th Marine Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Marine Corps. Battle of Corregidor and 4th Marine Regiment are United States military in the Philippines.

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59th Air Defense Artillery Regiment

The 59th Coast Artillery Regiment, later the 59th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, was a regiment in the United States Army.

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6-inch gun M1897

The 6-inch gun M1897 (152 mm) and its variants the M1900, M1903, M1905, M1908, and M1 (a.k.a. T2) were coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1897 and 1945.

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60th Air Defense Artillery Regiment

The 60th Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense unit of the United States Army.

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91st Coast Artillery (United States)

The 91st Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the United States Army, part of the Philippine Scouts.

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92nd Coast Artillery (United States)

The 92nd Coast Artillery Regiment was a Coast Artillery Corps regiment in the United States Army, part of the Philippine Scouts.

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See also

1942 in the Philippines

Battles and operations of World War II involving the Philippines

Corregidor

History of Cavite

May 1942 events

Philippines in World War II

United States military in the Philippines

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Corregidor

Also known as Fall of Corregidor, Siege of corregidor.

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