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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.
The island bastion of Corregidor, with its network of tunnels and formidable array of defensive armaments, along with the fortifications across the entrance to Manila Bay, was the remaining obstacle to the Japanese 14th Army of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma. Homma had to take Corregidor because as long as the island remained in American ...
The U.S. changed its tune with the conclusion of the war. Congress passed the Rescission Act in 1946, stripping many Filipino veterans and their families of benefits due to budget concerns and ...
February 16–26 – Battle of Corregidor American and Filipino ground forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. February 16 – Combined American and Filipino forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula. February 21–April 26 – Battle of Baguio (1945). February 23:
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During World War II he was captured during the Battle of Corregidor and spent 3.5 years as a Japanese prisoner of war. He survived the sinking of the Ōryoku Maru and was freed from captivity in September 1945. He later wrote about his experiences in his book Captured on Corregidor: Diary of an American P.O.W. in World War II. [1]
Alvin R. Scarborough, 22, was one of the troops subjected to a 65-mile Bataan death march in the Philippines during World War II.
Samuel Lutz Howard (March 8, 1891 – October 12, 1960) was a United States Marine Corps general who served with distinction in the Marine Corps for thirty-eight years. In the early stages of World War II, General Howard commanded the 4th Marine Regiment on Bataan and Corregidor from December 7, 1941, to May 6, 1942.