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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.
The retaking of the island, officially named Fort Mills, along with the bloody Battle of Manila and the earlier Battle of Bataan, marked the redemption of the American and Filipino surrender on 6 May 1942 and the subsequent fall of the Philippines. The surrender of Corregidor in 1942 and the ensuing fate of its 11,000 American and Filipino ...
During World War II, Corregidor was the site of two costly sieges and pitched battles—the first during the first months of 1942, and the second in February 1945—between the Imperial Japanese Army and the U.S. Army, along with its smaller subsidiary force, the Philippine Army. The surrender of U.S. forces at the Malinta Tunnel on May 6, 1942.
Surrender of American troops at Corregidor, Philippine Islands Depicted place Corregidor Island (Cavite, Philippines, Asia) island ( 14°22′59″N 120°34′59″E / 14.383°N 120.583°E / 14.383; 120.583 ; NARA geographical record
Wainwright ordering the surrender of the Philippines while being monitored by a Japanese censor U.S. generals in Japanese captivity, July 1942; Wainwright is seated front row, third from left. In September 1940, Wainwright was promoted to major general (temporary) and returned to the Philippines, in December, as commander of the Philippine ...
Intense fighting ensued and continued until the surrender of Bataan peninsula and Corregidor Island in spring 1942. ... 1942, according to prison and historical records, just months after the ...
William Fletcher Sharp (September 22, 1885 – March 30, 1947) was a United States Army major general. Sharp, a career Army officer, commanded the Visayas–Mindanao Force during the Philippines campaign (1941–1942), and surrendered his command to the Japanese after the Fall of Corregidor. He spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war ...
The main feature of the Bataan World War II Museum behind Balanga Elementary School is a life-size diorama of the surrender of the US forces in the Philippines to Japanese commanders on April 9, 1942.