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 ...

Without heroes, we’re all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.– Bernard Malamud, The Natural Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill ...

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 ...

Fort Hughes was completed by 1914. Like Fort Mills, it was part of the Coast Defense of Manila and Subic Bay. Eventually, Fort Hughes became a component of the renamed Harbor Defense of Manila and ...

A festive atmosphere reigned when Army Capt. Bob Epstein, Texas A&M Class of '44, got to the Hotel Manila for the Aggie Muster, a university tradition dating to 1883. It was the spring of 1946, the ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A festive atmosphere reigned when Army Capt. Bob Epstein, Texas A&M Class of ’44, got to the Hotel Manila for Aggie Muster, a university tradition dating to 1883. It was the spring ...

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