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 ...

Without heroes, we’re all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.– Bernard Malamud, The Natural Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill ...

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Fort Hughes was completed by 1914. Like Fort Mills, it was part of the Coast Defense of Manila and Subic Bay. Eventually, Fort Hughes became a component of the renamed Harbor Defense of Manila and ...

On May 6, 1942, in the early months of World War II, the American flag was hauled down on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines. The surrender marked the end to five months of bitter fighting ...

Fort Mills was built on Corregidor Island. Corregidor was the largest island positioned at the opening to Manila Bay. Corregidor has been called the “Rock’ or the “Gibraltar of the East.” The distance ...

David Meredith is a 37-year-old truck driver from Leavenworth, Kan. He drove for KBR in Iraq from September 2004 to September 2005. His first 10 months in Iraq were incident-free. In the following ...

Seventy-five years ago, the Imperial Japanese Army captured Corregidor, the tadpole-shaped island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, once known as the “Gibraltar of the East.” On ...