Battle of Corregidor

Belligerents

United States

• Philippines

JapanCommanders and leadersJonathan M. Wainwright(POW)
George F. Moore(POW)
Samuel L. Howard(POW)Masaharu Homma
Kureo Taniguchi
Gempachi Sato
Kizon Mikami
Haruji Morita
Col. Koike
Col. InoueUnits involved

Ground units:
4th Marine Regiment

Philippine Department

• 59th Coast Artillery Regiment
• 60th Coast Artillery Regiment
• 91st Coast Artillery Regiment
• 92nd Coast Artillery Regiment
• 200th Coast Artillery Regiment
• 515th 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)
  • Pigeon (ASR-6)
    • (abandoned ship) crew

Ground units:
Japanese Fourteenth Army

• 4th Infantry Division
• 7th Tank Regiment

Aerial units:

22nd Air BrigadeStrength 13,000 U.S. and Filipino troops, 2 gunboats, and 1 minesweeper 75,000 Japanese troopsCasualties 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 Fourteenth Area 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 surrendered the Philippines in 1946.