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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.
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)
Hospital lateral in the Malinta Tunnel Generals Douglas MacArthur and Richard K. Sutherland at USAFFE Headquarters, Malinta Tunnel, 1 March 1942 Surrender of U.S. forces at the Malinta Tunnel on 6 May 1942. The Malinta Tunnel is a tunnel complex built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines.
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 ...
On the night of 5 May, the 14-inch batteries of Fort Drum opened fire on the second wave of the Japanese forces assaulting Corregidor, sinking several troop barges and inflicting heavy casualties. [22] Fort Drum surrendered to Japanese forces after the Fall of Corregidor on 6 May 1942, and was occupied by them until 1945. [23]
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. The Japanese had captured the bastion from the United States Army Forces in the Far East during their 1942 invasion.
Philippines campaign, 1942. Battle of Bataan, 7 January – 9 April 1942; Battle of Corregidor, 5-6 May 1942; Dutch East Indies campaign, 1941–42 Battle of Borneo (1941–42), 16 December 1941 – March 1942; Battle of Manado, 11–13 January 1942; Battle of Tarakan (1942), January 11–12, 1942; Battle of Balikpapan (1942), 23–24 January 1942
File:Surrender of American troops at Corregidor, Philippine Islands, 05-1942 - NARA - 535553.tif