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Battle of Corregidor
Summary
Infobox military conflict
| conflict = Battle of Corregidor
| image = corregidor gun.jpg
| image_size = 300
| caption = Victorious Japanese troops atop the Hearn Battery, 6 May 1942.
| partof = the Pacific Theater of World War II
| date = 5-6 May 1942
| place = Corregidor island in Manila Bay, Luzon Island, Philippines
| result = Japanese victory
| combatant1 =
| combatant2 =
| commander1 = Jonathan M. Wainwright George F. Moore Samuel L. Howard
| commander2 = Masaharu Homma Kureo Taniguchi Gempachi Sato Kizon Mikami Haruji Morita Col. Koike Col. Inoue
| units1 = 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
USS Pigeon (ASR-6)
(abandoned ship) crew
| units2 = Ground units:
Japanese Fourteenth Army
4th Infantry Division
7th Tank Regiment
Aerial units:
22nd Air Brigade
| strength1 = 13,000 U.S. and Filipino troops, 2 gunboats, and 1 minesweeper
| strength2 = 75,000 Japanese troops
| casualties1 = 800 killed1,000 wounded11,000 POWs1 gunboat sunk1 gunboat scuttled1 minesweeper scuttled
| casualties2 = 900 killed1,200 wounded|
The Battle of Corregidor (Labanan sa Corregidor; 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.
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