This day in 1942, Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese, triggering a string of surrenders over the next several days that ended formal Allied resistance in the Philippines. (The link is an article on the battle.) In Australia, General MacArthur stated, Corregidor needs no comment from me. It has sounded its own story at the mouth of its guns. It has scrolled its own epitaph on enemy tablets, but through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shots, I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt, and ghostly men. historynet/corregidor-the-last-battle-in-the-fall-of-the-philippines.htm
Posted on: Tue, 06 May 2014 17:35:35 +0000