The local government here on Wednesday launched an economical and fast trip to Corregidor Island to boost tourism in the ...

Corregidor Island is a 5.5 square kilometer island at the entrance of Manila Bay in the Philippine island of Luzon located 42 kilometers from the City of Manila. It was a heavily fortified island ...

The hospitals in and around Manila were soon full and it was necessary ... to move soon and in great secrecy to the fortified island of Corregidor, from which point our civil government would ...

Experts said that under proper conditions, a landing could be effected on the northern or "tail end" of the tadpole-shaped island ... civilian refugees from Manila. Corregidor, located on Fort ...

Bravo for Drogin’s very interesting story on the Battle for Manila. My uncle was a 19-year old Marine stationed in the Philippines in 1942 when the fortress on Corregidor island was captured by ...

Manila Bay is the most obvious. Therefore it is the most heavily fortified. Centre of its fortification is the island of Corregidor. Americans in Manila boast that Corregidor is the most strongly ...

By January, MacArthur and his forces of U.S. and Filipino troops were forced onto the Bataan Peninsula and then to Corregidor Island in Manila Bay. In March 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt ...

Intense fighting ensued and continued until the surrender of Bataan peninsula and Corregidor Island in spring 1942 ... that had been constructed in Manila, the Philippines' capital city.

They arrived on Palawan from Manila after the U.S. Army on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island surrendered in April and May 1942, respectively. The Bautista air base today is one of nine ...