Battle of Corregidor

Battle of Corregidor
	Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
	; American and Filipino prisoners, captured at Corregidor
Date	5–6 May 1942
Location	Corregidor island in Manila Bay, Luzon Island, Philippines
Result	Japanese victory
Belligerents
United States Commonwealth of the Philippines;	Japan
Commanders and leaders
Jonathan M. Wainwright (POW); George F. Moore (POW); Samuel L. Howard (POW)	Masaharu Homma; Kureo Taniguchi; Gempachi Sato; Kizon Mikami; Haruji Morita; Col. Koike; Col. Inoue
Units involved
Ground units:; 4th Marine Regiment Philippine Department 59th Coast Artillery Regiment; 60th Coast Artillery Regiment; 91st Coast Artillery Regiment; 92nd Coast Artillery Regiment; 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Company A; ; Philippine Commonwealth Army 1st Coast Artillery Regiment; 2nd Coast Artillery Regiment Battery D; Battery F; ; Naval Units: ; 16th Naval District U.S. Navy Inshore Patrol Oahu (PR-6); Luzon (PR-7); Quail (AM-15); USS Pigeon (ASR-6) (abandoned ship) crew; ; ;	Ground units: ; Japanese Fourteenth Army 4th Infantry Division; 7th Tank Regiment; Aerial units: ; 22nd Air Brigade
Strength
13,000 U.S. and Filipino troops, 2 gunboats, and 1 minesweeper	75,000 Japanese troops
Casualties and losses
800 killed; 1,000 wounded; 11,000 POWs; 1 gunboat sunk; 1 gunboat scuttled; 1 minesweeper scuttled	900 killed; 1,200 wounded

The Battle of Corregidor (Filipino: Labanan sa Corregidor; Japanese: コレヒドールの戦い), fought on 5–6 May 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.

The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the United States Army Forces in the Far East to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon, in the northern Philippines. The island bastion of Corregidor, with its network of tunnels and formidable array of defensive armaments, along with the fortifications across the entrance to Manila Bay, was the remaining obstacle to the Japanese 14th Army of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma. Homma had to take Corregidor because as long as the island remained in American hands, the Japanese would be denied the use of Manila Bay and its harbor. The U.S. Army eventually recaptured the island in 1945.

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