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This collection of images shows how US warships, and, in particular, submarines helped sustain
the garrison.Singapore and Hong Kong had fallen to the forces of Imperial Japan, Thailand and
Burma had been invaded and islands across the Pacific captured. But one place, one tiny island
fortress garrisoned by a few thousand hungry and exhausted men, refused to be beaten. That
island fortress was Corregidor which guarded the entrance to Manila Bay and controlled all seaborne
access to Manila Harbor. At a time when every news bulletin was one of Japanese success,
Corregidor shone as the only beacon of hope in the darkness of defeat.The Japanese 14th Army
of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, threw everything it had at Corregidor, officially named
Fort Mills. But deep within the island’rocky heart, a tunnel had been excavated into Malinta
Hill and there the US troops, marine, naval and army, endured the terrible onslaught. At their head
was General Douglas MacArthur who became a national hero with his resolute determination
never to surrender, until ordered to evacuate to Australia to avoid such a senior officer being
captured by the enemy. Bur with his departure, the rest of the garrison knew that there was no
possibility of relief. They would have to fight on until the bitter end, whatever form that might
take.That end came in May 1942. The defenders were reduced to virtually starvation rations with
many of them wounded. Consequently, when, on 5 May the Japanese mounted a powerful
amphibious assault, the weakened garrison could defy the enemy no longer. Corregidor, the
‘Giraltar of the East’ finally fell to the invaders.Those invaders were to become the
invaded when MacArthur returned in January 1945. For three weeks, US aircraft, warships and
artillery hammered the Japanese positions on Corregidor. Then, on 16 February, the Americans
landed on the island. It took MacArthur’men ten days to hunt down the last of the
Japanese, after many had chosen to commit suicide rather than surrender, but Corregidor was at
last back in Allied hands.In this unique collection of images, the full story Corregidor’part in
the Second World War is dramatically revealed. The ships, the aircraft, the guns, the fortifications
and the men themselves, are shown here, portraying the harsh, almost unendurable, realities of
war.
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