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 ...

Back in May 1942, after an incredibly successful campaign in the Pacific Theatre, the Japanese captured the last bastion of ...

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 ...

NEVER in my life had I felt the least desire to go down in a submarine. I can remember the day when the High Commissioner’s naval aide in Manila said to our fifteen-year-old son, “Bill, how would you ...

One of World War II’s greatest untold stories began on April 8, 1942 when Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the commander of the U.S. Army in the Philippines, ordered the evacuation of military and ...

May 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena. In 1847, the American Medical Association was founded in Philadelphia. In 1862, Mexican ...

Just hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, some 1,800 soldiers assigned to New Mexico’s 200th Coast Artillery Regiment in the Philippines were among the first to defend the ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur and his family left the Philippine island of Corregidor on this day in history, March 11, 1942. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered MacArthur to leave the island after ...