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The Battle of Corregidor (Filipino: Labanan sa Corregidor; Japanese: コレヒドールの戦い), 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.
In 1942, Brigadier General George F. Moore, a 1908 graduate of Texas A&M, was the American artillery commander on Corregidor. With the help of Major Tom Dooley, of A&M's class of 1935, Moore gathered the names of 25 other Aggies for a customary school muster on 21 April – San Jacinto Day in Texas, the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto ...
Early in 1942, the Japanese air command installed oxygen in its bombers to fly higher than the range of the Corregidor anti-aircraft batteries, and after that time, heavier bombardment began. In December 1941, Philippines President Manuel L. Quezon , General MacArthur, other high-ranking military officers and diplomats and families escaped the ...
The fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942, ended all organized opposition by the U.S. Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) and gave way to the invading Japanese forces in Luzon in the northern Philippines. They were forced to surrender due to the lack of food and ammunition, leaving Corregidor and its adjacent islets at Manila Bay as the only areas ...
Record group: Record Group 208: Records of the Office of War Information, 1926 - 1951 (National Archives Identifier: 535)Series: Photographs of the Allies and Axis, compiled 1942 - 1945 (National Archives Identifier: 535523)
Mims said the soldiers fought the Japanese in Manila and Corregidor, an island off the Bataan Peninsula. He became a prisoner of war after American forces surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942.
Japanese invasion of Davao (December 20, 1941 to April 1942) Battle of the Philippines (1941–42) 8 December 1941 – 8 May 1942; Battle of Bataan 7 January – 9 April 1942; Battle of Corregidor 5–6 May 1942; Battle of Cebu 12–19 May 1942; Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941–1945) 8 May 1942 – 5 July 1945
Sep. 11—It's time for another try at the gold. Several members of New Mexico's congressional delegation plan to renew a push to confer a collective Congressional Gold Medal on veterans who ...