Corregidor is a small island. At just over two square miles, it’s shaped like a thought bubble in the mouth of Manila Bay. It may be a tiny dot in the ocean, but it’s also a well-positioned dot.

WASHINGTON, May 5, 1942 (UP) -- Japanese landing parties are storming Corregidor fortress in a supreme bid to capture the rock-hewn citadel which bars them from Manila bay, the War department ...

The original caption to this photo described: "The bearded, weary heroes of the epic defense of Corregidor, rock fortress of Manila Bay in the Philippines on Aug. 12, 1942, being marched away to ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The fall of Corregidor forces us to ask a tough question: what went wrong? The answer is pretty much everything. “Tell Joe, wherever he is, to give ’em hell for us,” ...

May 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena. In 1847, the American Medical Association was founded in Philadelphia. In 1862, Mexican ...

NEVER in my life had I felt the least desire to go down in a submarine. I can remember the day when the High Commissioner’s naval aide in Manila said to our fifteen-year-old son, “Bill, how would you ...

Frank Keller twisted and contorted, loaded down by more than 100 pounds of equipment. Inside an airplane surrounded by cigarette smoke and pulsating with nervous energy, Keller hoped he would live ...

Kingston — Tucked away in a vault in the Army museum at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, pressed behind glass in a wooden frame, is a four-inch square piece of American history. A small ...