After the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, Japanese forces invaded the Philippines with little opposition. They took over most of the South China Sea islands, except for one called ...

Corregidor is a small island. At just over two square miles, it’s shaped like a thought bubble in the mouth of Manila Bay. It may be a tiny dot in the ocean, but it’s also a well-positioned ...

The margin of victory was slight, but against the tragedies of Bataan and Corregidor, the resolve shown at Coral Sea is proof that America’s will to win is a powerful thing.

WASHINGTON, May 5, 1942 (UP) -- Japanese landing parties are storming Corregidor fortress in a supreme bid to capture the rock-hewn citadel which bars them from Manila bay, the War department ...

At Jutland she was a newfangled seaplane tender named Engadine. Now she was the Corregidor, a dumpy, inter-island steamer, and doom hung above her as she pulled away from the dock at Manila.Aboard ...

Army Nurses from Bataan and Corregidor, freed after three years imprisonment in Santo Tomas Interment Compound, climb into trucks on Feb. 12, 1945, as they leave Manila, Luzon, headed home.

¶ Not even symbolic Corregidor has escaped the rot. With inside help, raiders recently penetrated the island fortress, cut through its armory’s steel doors, and with insolent leisure ferried ...

Corregidor Island is a 5.5 square kilometer island at the entrance of Manila Bay in the Philippine island of Luzon located 42 kilometers from the City of Manila. It was a heavily fortified island ...

Descendants of some U.S. troops taken prisoner in the Philippines during World War II have called into question an ongoing effort to award those veterans with Congressional Gold Medals, saying the ...