Corregidor Island, located at the entrance to Manila Bay, was dubbed the “Gibraltar” of the Pacific. It was also given the nickname the “Rock.” Most of the fortifications on the island ...

Intense fighting ensued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942 ...

Military headquarters were removed to the island of Corregidor. General Douglas MacArthur believed the lushly vegetated Bataan peninsula, 80% of which is mountainous terrain, could provide ...