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Mindoro: Key that unlocked RP liberation
Inquirer.net - Philippines
When he was preparing for his return to the Philippines in 1944 after leaving Corregidor for Australia in 1942, his
plan was that after his invasion of
December 8, 1941: The start of a nightmare
Manila Times - Philippines
24, Quezon, his family and selected members of his Cabinet were evacuated to Corregidor. macarthur and his command
were also holed up on the island fortress ...
Pearl Harbor Revisited
Lew Rockwell - Burlingame,CA,USA
The two much older brothers of my best school buddy were Marines, and one of them was captured on Corregidor
and spent the war in a Japanese prison camp. ...
Home for the Holidays
KC Community News - Overland Park,KS,USA
... Corregidor, the final island to fall in the Pacific Campaign. It was referred to as "the
Rock" because of how long it managed to hold off the Japanese
'It buries deep in your mind'
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
We saw the submarines from Corregidor with the nurses they'd been able to evacuate. The nurses were in
bad shape. All you had to do was make a loud noise ...
Harlan recalls days from war
Trumann Democrat - Trumann,AR,USA
The next day Bataan fell to the Japanese. US soldiers captured were forced to endure the famous Bataan Death
March. On Corregidor, Harlan and his buddies ...
64 years ago today
Shelbyville Times-Gazette - TN,USA
He became a prisoner of the Japanese when Corregidor fell in May, 1942. Shofner was held as a POW at Old
Bilibid Prison in Manila for a brief time, ...
Never cast it aside
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA
I have a flag that flew over Corregidor before the island fell to the Japanese army on April 10, 1942. My
grandfather was a member of the Naval battalion ...
Film of Emporian's war book shown tonight
Emporia Gazette (subscription) - Emporia,KS,USA
Douglas MacArthur and other high-ranking officers from Bataan and Corregidor. After completing
their assignment, they resume their attacks on the Japanese,
Vet recalls Bataan Death March horrors
Discovery Bay Press - Brentwood,CA,USA
Wainwright would continue the defense of Corregidor until he was forced to surrender on May 6, 1942
after running out of ammunition and food. ...
Aging veterans cast light on battles past
Today's News-Herald - Lake Havasu City,AZ,USA
... of Corregidor, near Manila, manning an anti-aircraft gun. Only three miles from the
coast of Bataan, where the Japanese had set up an artillery barrage, ...
World War II memorial eyed; Veteran Schlaupitz seeks symbol for
...
Newszap Delaware - DE,USA
He received a Purple Heart after being wounded in Corregidor, Philippines, in 1945 — hit
through the thigh by a Japanese mortar shell. ...
A World at War: Veterans' service
comes into focus after their deaths
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
Halfway back, his leave was canceled
and he was ordered to the Philippines after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Olson was captured when Corregidor fell ...
Corregidor! Philippine Adventures
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA
(Fred C. Wilson III) But the Japanese were in for the shock of their lives when they attempted to seize Bataan
and fortress Corregidor. ...
A life with the bomb
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Lowe, himself an ex-Navy veteran of Britain's nuclear tests off Malden Island in 1957, is following the
parliamentary inquiry launched this month into the ...
WWII vet honered 62 years later
Addison County Independent - Middlebury,VT,USA
"We hit just about every island — Dutch New Guinea, Guadalcanal, Corregidor, Okinawa
— everywhere," Novak recalled. "You moved with the force. ...
Just a girl from Hampton
Exeter News-Letter - Exeter,NH,USA
When war broke out, she served in field hospitals in Bataan and Corregidor until the American surrender
there. At that time, she was wounded and taken ...
Daughter honors war hero dad she never met
Murfreesboro Post - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
"They were very overloaded, but they made it Corregidor safely." Their safety was
short-lived, however. American weaponry only held off the Japanese until ...
INQUIRER SOUTHERN LUZON Historical lighthouse
in Calatagan needs ...
Inquirer.net - Philippines
The website listed 27 major lighthouses in the Philippines, including the
Pulo Caballo in Corregidor, Siete Pecados in Panay, and Cape Bojeador in Ilocos ...
Remember Sgt. Henry Johnson And Weep
NewsByUs - Boise,ID,USA
... was awarded the CMH for sneaking away from Corregidor in the middle of the night and abandoning his men only to be
starved and tortured by the Japanese. ...
PBS documentary teaches the truth about World War II
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
That was true in the Pacific theater, and the film does not gloss over the fact that enraged American troops
occasionally shot Japanese prisoners in ...
THE KID & THE GENERAL
Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
During his captivity, he felt that he had let his country down for surrendering Bataan and
Corregidor. Upon his release, he was stunned to learn that the ...
Local veterans travel to DC to view WWII Memorial
Monessen Valley Independent - Monessen,PA,USA
Later, Kistler parachuted into the fighting on Corregidor, which was swarming with Japanese.
"It was rough," he recalled. Around the same time -- February ...
Crucible of Philippine history
Inquirer.net - Philippines
About half a century after those momentous events, it again played a key role in Philippine history--as Corregidor,
the largest of five islands guarding the ...
Early World War II In Napa
Napa Valley Register - Napa,CA,USA
Soon came the fall of Corregidor and MacArthur's famous "I shall return" as he was forced to
leave the Philippines. The news told of the daring feats of our ...
Memories of a war
Manila Times - Philippines
Dr. Legarda's book gives us the nitty-gritty details of the Japanese invasion and occupation of the
Philippines, the various wartime incidents, ...
A date which has lived in obscurity
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
It reminded Jamero of the tales her grandfather told of the Battle of Corregidor, the Bataan Death
March, fighting the Japanese as a young Filipino ...
War Stories
New Hampshire Magazine - Manchester,NH,USA
During the Japanese retreat they loaded him and 1618 other survivors of the Bataan Death March,
Corregidor and other battles onto a converted former luxury
Fil-Vet leader still optimistic about equity despite long wait
Balita - Glendale,CA,USA
Their valiant defense of Bataan and Corregidor held back invading Japanese forces and bought time for the US forces
to mount a counter-attack that--with the ...
Shipmates put forces on beach during WWII
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
At Corregidor we got marooned on the beach, and the Japanese were shooting down
on our ship. It was pretty exciting. Of course we were quite young.
AskMen.Com, AOL News Feature Boracay, Philippines On List Of .
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - USA
... such as a tour of the island-fortress of Corregidor, the last Filipino-American bastion to fall to
the Japanese in World War II; or an excursion to ...
WWII prisoner Nicholas Kalynych
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
After the Japanese captured the Bataan peninsula in April, and the island of Corregidor in May,
tens of thousands of Americans and Filipinos became
Ailing US veteran makes sentimental trip to RP
Asianjournal.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... waited inside a Manila Bay terminal for a boat that would ferry them to Corregidor island. "On
Christmas Day of 1944, I shot down two Japanese planes. ...
Toddler Blair's nuclear history
ic Teesside.co.uk - Middlesbrough,England,UK
John Lowe, 71, served in the Royal Navy aboard HMS Narvic which was sent to Malden Island where Britain detonated an atom bomb. ...
No justice for the H Bomb victims
Buxton Advertiser - Buxton,England,UK
ON A scorching May morning some 50 years ago, 18-year-old Michael Dilworth sat on the flight deck of HMS
Warrior ten miles from Malden Island in the Pacific
Bataan survivors, vets to meet
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
Corregidor was an island bastion that guarded the entrance to Manila Bay. Allied forces there surrendered to the
Japanese on May 6, 1942.
Art helps as vets reflect on WWII
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
The occasion was a joint gathering of the Northwest Chapter of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and
the 3rd and 4th Defense Battalion Marines ...
Aviation mechanic served in the Pacific
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USA
Within a year, Florio was flying missions in Manila, Corregidor and Bataan, as well
as in the Philippines under the command of Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
US flag sustained POW
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USA
... on the coral of Corregidor. I watched our flag until it was no longer there to
watch. We surrendered to overpowering Japanese armed forces in Bataan.
Monument for the late Capt. Bernatitus will be dedicated June 23
The Citizen's Voice - PA,USA
... nurse at Corregidor during the siege of the Philippines, and was among the last group to be evacuated
before the island's fall to the Japanese Army. ...
Bataan
death march survivors: Son of New Mexico, Evans Garcia's story
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... Corregidor and the
harbor defense forts of the Philippines. These "sons of New Mexico" were captured by the Japanese and forced to surrender, ...
* Arnold Lappert, 86, got last messages
from Corregidor From wire ...
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
Sgt. Arnold Lappert, the Army radio technician in
Hawaii who received the last messages from the island of Corregidor before its surrender to the Japanese ...
Carl Holloway: Our freedom is precious, but fragile. A
sure way to ...
Picayune Item - Picayune,MS,USA
He knew that it was the last day of Corregidor. "As we moved out along the
road leading to the point of the heaviest fighting, Japanese units shot up flares ...
Unsung heroes, Filipino vets gather in Tacoma
TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma,WA,USA
All were decorated with the nation's highest award for valor for their actions in the
defense of Bataan and Corregidor, which bought valuable time for US
Remembering Corregidor
ABS CBN News - Philippines
The Japanese intensified their bombardment of Corregidor - incessantly raining explosives on the island day and
night. A structure that played a significant ...
Jump in the past
Citrus County Chronicle - Crystal River,FL,USA
... the outnumbered American paratroopers killed 4509 Japanese soldiers and captured 20. More
importantly, they regained control of Corregidor, ...
Fundraiser pays for trip for World War II vets
NavyTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA
Sonny Davis, 84, was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for three years after Corregidor in the Philippines
fell when American troops ran out of ammunition
Former POW Recounts His Time As A Prisoner
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
... reflected on the importance of the Island of Corregidor to controlling Manila Harbor in the Philippines, it was
critical and the Japanese wanted it.
Man who served with Janesville 99 recalls ordeal of World War II
Janesville Gazette - Janesville,WI,USA
They were careening in a truck, dodging both American artillery fire from the still-fighting island
fortress of Corregidor and short-falling Japanese rounds ...
Local
Aggies remember comrades during traditional Muster celebration
Blackanthem.com - Clinton Township,MI,USA
George Moore '08,
mustered during the Japanese siege of the Philippine island of Corregidor. Even during such a dire situation, they "took time to remember ...
Atrocities still haunt 'Ghost of Bataan'
Connellsville Daily Courier - Connellsville,PA,USA
The approximately 90-mile ride symbolized the death march of soldiers who were responsible
for the defense of the island of Luzon, Corregidor and the harbor ...
The 70-meter obelisk at the Capas Shrine
What's On & Expat - Philippines
Taking up the flag of their cause is the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (DBC) Foundation, a group
founded in 1952 and sustained by those who took part ...
'Filipinos strength in survival honored
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... anniversary of the fall of Bataan and Corregidor. It was then that Filipinos fought as US
soldiers against the Japanese invasion of the Philippines. ...
~UNM
Army ROTC Cadets Take First Place in Bataan Memorial Death March
UNM Today - Albuquerque,NM,USA
The soldiers were responsible
for the defense of the islands of Luzon, Corregidor and the harbor defense forts of the Philippines. On April 9, 1942, ...
''America has a moral obligation to look after the welfare of ...
Philippine News Online - Philippines
... American World War II veterans who fought in Bataan and Corregidor, and who later joined the resistance against the Japanese forces in the Philippines. ...
'Americas Big Surrender
American Heritage - USA
... of
Corregidor, the "Gibraltar of the Pacific," which dominated the harbor entrance. The Japanese landed on Luzon's northern end on December 22, 1941. ...
CK Teen Takes His Bataan Play to Washington
Kitsap Sun (Subscription) - Bremerton,WA,USA
A Central Kitsap teen will perform a one-man play during the annual American Defenders of Bataan
and Corregidor convention in Washington, DC, next week.
Register soon for Bataan memorial march
ArmyTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA
On April 9, 1942, tens of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces. They
were marched for days in the scorching heat ...
To hell and back, now gone
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Waldron was still keeping his diary in May 1942, when the Japanese captured Corregidor. A sergeant, he said, gave
him a terse word of advice: "He told me
The Almanac
United Press International - USA
... from Japanese conquest, US Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur abandoned the island fortress of Corregidor under
orders from US President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
For Colorado veterans, snub is more of the same
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
Lloyd Herrera of Denver, 84, who fought in the Pacific and parachuted onto Corregidor in the Philippines, said of
his fellow Latino troops: "You don't see ...
Former mayor and businessman Wilson dies at 89
Durango Herald - Durango,CO,USA
His time in the service was spent in the Philippines, clearing remaining Japanese troops out after Corregidor
was retaken during World War II. ...
Man held; journal still missing
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA
Small and worn, the journal chronicled more than three years of the Army corporal's life as a prisoner
of war after the Japanese capture of Corregidor in
State briefs
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
... more than three years of the former Army corporal's life as a prisoner of war after the
Japanese captured the Philippine island of Corregidor in 1942.
Oxnard veteran used military career to search for brother
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USA
The Japanese had captured his older brother, Dan, in Corregidor, and he was a
prisoner of war. Ed Weigel was determined to find his brother and save him ...
Vet honored decades laterVet honored decades later
Union Democrat - Sonora,CA,USA
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he moved onto Corregidor, which became a battle station for American and
Philippine forces. The Japanese descended on the ...
Wartime Diary Stolen
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA
The book survived with its author to tell of 3 1/2 years of prison captivity under the Japanese after the
captue of Corregidor in the Philippines during ...
An honor restored
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA
Waldron's small journal chronicled 3 1/2 years of his life as prisoner after the Japanese army captured
Corregidor in the Philippines in May 1942. ...
Vet's stolen medal replaced
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA
... cash and jewelry, the World War II veteran's journal that he had kept in secret as a prisoner of
war after the Japanese capture of Corregidor was taken,
Remember when... McCoy first soldier from county to die in WWII
News Messenger - Salem,VA,USA
"The battle for Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the
Philippines," according to information on the Wickpedia web ...
4th Marines explore historic Philippine battle site
U.S. Marine Corps Bases Japan - Okinawa-ken,Okinawa,Japan
11-13 to provide the Marines an opportunity to reflect first-hand on how 4th Marines
attempted to defend Corregidor Island from a Japanese assault in 1942. ...
Oblivious to the heat of the battle
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... a remarkable book about his father's imprisonment during the Japanese occupation of The Philippines.
Before the surrender of Corregidor, Murray Glusman,
WWII veteran's heart-wrenching diary stolen in burglary
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
But the book survived, along with its author, to tell the story of his 3½ years of captivity under
the Japanese after the capture of Corregidor in the ...
A heroic salute
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
... on the USS Spearfish a few days before Corregidor, a small rocky island in the
Philippines, fell to the Japanese on May 3, 1942, during World War II.
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