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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Corregidor
		Corregidor is an island in the entrance of the Philippines' Manila Bay.
		Corregidor is a tadpole shaped island on the mouth of Manila Bay.
		Corregidor also served as the temporary shelter for the government of President Manuel L. Quezon and his family for two months (December 24, 1941 to February 19, 1942) prior to the eventual exile of the Philippine Commonwealth government to the United States.
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	CalendarHome.com - Corregidor - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Corregidor is an island in the entrance of the Philippines' Manila Bay.
		The island bastion of Corregidor, with its network of tunnels and formidable array of defensive armament, along with the fortifications across the entrance to Manila Bay, was the remaining obstacle to the 14th Japanese Imperial Army of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma.
		The lighthouse is one of the oldest landmarks in Corregidor.
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	Battle of Corregidor - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Battle for Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines.
		The island bastion of Corregidor, with its network of tunnels and formidable array of defensive armament, along with the fortifications across the entrance to Manila Bay, was the remaining obstacle to the 14th Japanese Imperial Army of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma.
		Corregidor's defeat marked the fall of the Philippines and Asia, but Imperial Japan's timetable for the conquest of Australia and the rest of the Pacific, was severely upset and her advance was ultimately checked at the battles for New Guinea, to the turning point in the Pacific War at Guadalcanal.
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	Corregidor - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Corregidor is an island in the entrance of the Philippines' Manila Bay.
		Corregidor in 1941 was not any better than when she was in the middle of the twenties.
		The lighthouse is one of the oldest landmarks in Corregidor.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Corregidor_Island (4500 words)

	Corregidor - Encyclopedia.com
		Corregidor was honeycombed with tunnels to serve as ammunition depots, and Fort Mills and Kindley Field were established.
		Corregidor was finally invaded early in May, 1942, and the garrison was forced to surrender.
		Corps, and veterans of WW II gathered on Corregidor Island to commemorate the re-taking of Corregidor and the raising of the American and Filipino...
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	America at War
		The tugs USS Genesee (ATO-55) and USS Vaga (YT-116) are scuttled in the Philippines.
		Corregidor and Manila Bay forts surrender to the Japanese.
		The destroyer USS Hamman (DD-412) is torpedoed and sunk by a submarine during the battle.
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	Suchmaschine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Corregidor is a tadpole-shaped island four miles long and about 1.5 miles at its widest point, with a total area roughly about three square miles.
		Corregidor comes from the Spanish word corregir, meaning "to correct." One story states that, due to the Spanish system wherein all ships entering Manila Bay were required to stop and have their documents checked and corrected, the island was called Isla del Corregidor (literally, Island of Correction).
		The Battle for the Recapture of Corregidor, from 16 February to 26 February 1945, by American liberation forces against the defending Japanese garrison on the island fortress used by the USAFFE, which was the last bastion to surrender to invading Japanese forces in 1942.
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	Bloody Corregidor Battle Remembered - By David Brown
		But they are not glorious battles, and no one who was ever there thought so at the time.
		Unlike many battles on Pacific islands, there was no problem in fixing a precise moment of victory.
		The second battle of Corregidor Island — the battle that was heroic but no defeat — was over.
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	Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) information - Search.com
		The Battle of the Philippines was the invasion of the Philippines by Japan in 1941-42 and the defense of the islands by Filipino and United States forces.
		Corregidor was defended by 11,000 personnel, comprising the US 4th Marine Regiment, other miscellaneous infantry, US Army artillery units and US Navy personnel, deployed as infantry.
		The Japanese began their assault on Corregidor with an artillery barrage on 1 May. On the night of 5-6 May, two battalions of the Japanese 61st Infantry Regiment landed at the northeast end of the island.
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	Battle of Midway: 4-7 June 1942
		The Battle of Midway, fought near the Central Pacific island of Midway, is considered the decisive battle of the war in the Pacific.
		Before this battle the Japanese were on the offensive, capturing territory throughout Asia and the Pacific.
		A third, at Corregidor ("Cast"), was rapidly disintegrating under Japanese air and artillery attacks on the island.
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	Corregidor - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The island was liberated in 1945 by the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment.
		Today it is home to an audio-visual presentation of the events that took place on the island, including the reluctant departure of General Douglas MacArthur and the evacuation of the Philippine president Manuel L. Quezon and his family to unoccupied areas of the Philippines and then to exile in the United States.
		With a rule that lasted over three centuries, the Spaniards had a chance to appoint many corregidores -- and it is completely logical that an isle in that extensive archipelago should bear such a name.
	www.recipeland.com /facts/Corregidor (521 words)

	CVE-68 USS Corregidor
		This fortress guarding the entrance to Manila Bay was the scene of the last gallant stand of the outnumbered American-Filipino force which surrendered to the overwhelming Japanese invaders 6 May 1942.
		Corregidor sailed from Pearl Harbor 27 February to search for an overdue plane carrying Lieutenant General M. Harmon, USA, arriving at Majuro 20 March.
		Returning to Pearl Harbor 4 May 1945, Corregidor was assigned duty as a training ship in Hawaii, conducting carrier pilot qualifications until the end of the war.
	www.multied.com /navy/ecarrier/Corrigidor.html (539 words)

	Battle of Corregidor
		Corregidor was strategically located at the entrance of Manila Bay, one of Asia's finest natural harbors.
		It was from Corregidor that Philippine President Manuel Quezon and General MacArthur left for Australia in March 1942, leaving Lt. General Jonathan M. Wainwright in overall command.
		Filipino Citizens did not participate in the battle, but members of their armed forced did, serving with valor anbattle of Corregidor Island Â— the battle that was heroic but no defeat Â— was over.
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	Asia Times: Southeast Asia
		That the market for bringing vets back to the battle sites is growing may seem odd when one considers that many are elderly or have already passed on.
		The son recalls that of all his father's war remembrances, Corregidor seemed to be the most vivid.
		And so finally, on the 60th anniversary of the fall of Corregidor, Kweicinski and his sister, neither of whom had ever been overseas, decided to plunk down $2,400 each and join Bob Reynolds' latest tour, and retrace the footsteps of their father.
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	Corregidor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The term, it should be noted, referred less to someone who teaches wayward people to cultivate the paths of rectitude than it did to a magistrate in colonial Spain.
		The Spaniards were the dominant presence in Philippines between the 1560s, when they began to colonize the islands, and 1898, when control passed over to the United States in the wake of the Spanish-American War.
		With a rule that lasted over three centuries, the Spaniards had a chance to appoint many corregidores -- and it is completely logical that an isle in that extensive island chain should bear such a name.
	www.punweb.com /article/Corregidor (334 words)

	GardeningDaily - Battle of Corregidor
		Corregidor's defeat marked the fall of the Philippines and Asia, but Imperial Japan's timetable for the conquest of Australia was severely upset and her advance was ultimately checked at the battles for New Guinea,to the turning point in the Pacific War at Guadalcanal.
		Unlike their compatriots who suffered and perished in the Bataan Death March, about 4,000 of the 11,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Corregidor were marched through the streets of Manila to incarceration at Fort Santiago, a criminal detention center turned POW camp.
		Earlier on January 30, remnants of the Bataan and Corregidor POWs were rescued by the elements of the 6th Ranger Battalion at a raid in Cabanatuan.
	www.gardeningdaily.com /flowers-and-plants/Battle_of_Corregidor (425 words)

	60th Anniversary Celebrations on Corregidor
		On March 2, 1945, General Douglas MacArthur, the wartime commander of allied forces in the Pacific, raised the American flag on Corregidor, three years after he was ordered to leave it as the Japanese were invading the Philippines, then a US colony.
		The Battle for Corregidor involved one of the most complex and successful airborne operations in World War II.
		The 503d PRCT Heritage Battalion is privately supported through The Corregidor Historic Society and by a group of like-minded private individuals who believe in the preservation of the R.C.T's Heritage and the continuation of its Lineage.
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	Bataan Corregidor Memorial Foundation of New Mexico, Inc.
		Except for the few who escaped to fight as guerrillas, the survivors of those bloody battles were to suffer 3-1/2 years of the most inhumane treatment known to mankind as prisoners of war.
		Leo Padilla, Agapito Silva, William Overmier and Ernest Montoya, survivors of Bataan and Corregidor and slave labor camps in Japan and Manchuria, for many years lobbied the City of Albuquerque and some State legislators for the Memorial.
		They persevered against many adversities, never losing sight of their dream of having their and their comrades’ contribution to freedom be remembered by generations of New Mexicans to come.
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	USS Corregidor (CVE 58)
		Decommissioned on July 30, 1946, the CORREGIDOR was recommissioned on May 19, 1951, to transport troops and aircraft to Korea.
		The CORREGIDOR was decommissioned for the last time on September 4, 1958.
		AUGUILLA BAY was launched as CORREGIDOR on 12 May 1943 by Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, Wash., under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs.
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	Battle of the Philippines-Fall of Bataan and Corregidor
		At his headquarters on the fortified island of Corregidor, General Wainwright elected to follow MacArthur's order from Australia to continue the hopeless battle to the end.
		The heroic defenders of Corregidor were subjected to the same appalling brutality that had been inflicted by the Japanese on the survivors of Bataan.
		American and Philippine troops suffered 16,000 casualties in the Battle of the Philippines, and 84,000 endured cruel imprisonment or execution at the hands of the Japanese.
	www.users.bigpond.com /pacificwar/gatheringstorm/Philippines/FallBataanCorreg.html (937 words)

	Main Street Newspapers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"The battle for Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines," according to information on the Wickpedia web site at http://en.wikipedia.org.
		The island bastion of Corregidor, with its network of tunnels and formidable array of defensive armament, along with the fortifications across the entrance to Manila Bay, was the remaining obstacle to the 14th Japanese Imperial Army of Lt. Gen.
		McCoy was killed in action at Fort Mills on Corregidor Island on April 29, 1942, shortly before Wainwright's surrender, but the circumstances surrounding McCoy's death are unclear.
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	Bataan and Corregidor
		Unable to stop the enemy at the shoreline of Luzon, MacArthur withdrew sea forces into the Bataan Peninsula, the island of Corregidor, and three other small islands in Manila Bay.
		General Wainwright surrendered the remainder of the American forces on Corregidor and elsewhere in the Philippines on May 6, 1942.
		Fascinating, inspiring stories and details about the heroes of Bataan and Corregidor who were recognized with the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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	BATAAN DALNET
		Bataan peninsula is located southwards from the western shores of central Luzon, forming the enclosed and well-sheltered Manila Bay to the east that is nearly cut off from the open China Sea in the west.
		The narrow outlet separates the peninsula from Corregidor Island and Cavite to the south.
		Marks the significant pockers where a battle ensued as a prelude to the final defense in Bataan.
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	Inlibris Bookstore - Corregidor by Eric Morris
		As the son of a Corregidor veteran I found this book very helpful to understanding the Battle of Corregidor.
		"Corregidor" traces memories of actual participants and research illustrating peacetime from mid year of 1941 to the fall of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines from December 1941 to May 1942.
		Illustrates the strong heart of the American and Philippine troops who fought the battles and the failure of an unprepared military leadership.
	www.inlibris.com /bookstore/?ms=books;mode=books;ed=;m=1;asin=0812880218;s=Corregidor;ps=1 (215 words)

	Battle_of_Corregidor - The Wordbook Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The fall of Bataan in April 9, 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U.S. Army Forces - Far East (USAFFE) to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon in the northern Philippines.
		American servicemen alternately dubbed it as "The Rock" or the "Gibraltar of the East", in comparison to the peninsular fortress that guards the main entrance to the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Africa.
		The bridge in Chicago, Illinois where State Street crosses the Chicago River is named the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Bridge.
	www.thewordbook.com /Battle_of_Corregidor (2417 words)

	Battle of the Philippines: Bataan and Corregidor
		Despite the hopelessness of the American position, MacArthur declared that he was determined to hold Bataan and Corregidor to the end, and he set up the Abucay-Mauban defensive line with two army corps across the Bataan Peninsula.
		From the comparative safety of the underground fortifications of Corregidor, Macarthur directed that there would be no more retreats by his troops on Bataan and no surrender.
		This was a reference to the fact that MacArthur only left his underground headquarters on Corregidor once during the siege to visit his troops on Bataan.
	www.users.bigpond.com /pacificwar/gatheringstorm/Philippines/SiegeBatCorr.html (1657 words)

	WW2 Pacific, May 1942
		Battle of Coral Sea is fought with Japanese in squalls and USN in sunlight.
		The Battle of Coral Sea is the first time the Japanese Navy is stopped from an objective.
		Japs fare better in the battle, but lost the opportunity to take Port Moresby on south coast of New Guinea and to raid Australia.
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	War in the Pacific
		On May 6, 1942, Corregidor, the last Allied sronghold in the Pacific, fell and 10,000 more men were added to the camp.
		The men of Bataan and Corregidor were packed into the holds of the ships so tightly that there was no room to sit or to lay down, and they had to take turns sleeping.
		The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the biggest naval battle of World War II, and the campaign to re-take the Philippines was the bloodiest campaign of the Pacific War.
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