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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.
Gerard M. Devlin Back to Corregidor: America Retakes the Rock (1992) St. Martins Press ISBN 0-312-07648-7; Edward M. Flanagan Corregidor: The Rock Force Assault, 1945 by (1988) Presidio Press ISBN 0-89141-319-7; S. Sandler World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia (Military History of the United States) (2000) Routledge ISBN 0-8153-1883-9
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.
Today, Malinta Tunnel is the venue of an audio-visual presentation by National Artist Lamberto V. Avellana of events that occurred during World War II, including the evacuation of President Quezon and General MacArthur by Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three from Corregidor to Mindanao. They were later flown to Australia.
American Defenses of Corregidor and Manila Bay 1898-1945 (Fortress, 4). Osprey Publishing (UK). ISBN 1-84176-427-2. Morton, Louis (1953). The Fall of the Philippines. U.S. Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific. Washington, D.C.: United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 5-2. Archived from the original on 2012-01-08
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)
On the north side of Corregidor Island, the two mines fields could be electrically be turned on and off by controls on Corregidor Island, so US ships could use the bay safely. US Navy Cryptologist Admiral Ernest J. King and other Naval intelligence personnel were taken off Corregidor by submarines on April 8, 1942. [27]
The Harbor of Manila and Surrounding Areas. 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.