Corregidor Island, Fort Mills – Philippine-Sailor

Category: Corregidor Island, Fort Mills

Corregidor is a place of HISTORY, important both for the Philippines and the United States of America. It was a great American Fort (Fort Mills) and played a key role in WWII. It was a battle field in the loss of the Philippines in 1942 and a great battle of liberation took place here in 1945! I love history and visited this island many times.

Corregidor News as of 2023 Jan. 01

Zg331. It seems some military visitors organized their own Corregidor visit (April 2023) and tied-up their special crafts to the famous Lorcha Dock were Gen. MacArthur departed from in March 1942 with a heavy heart for Australia to organize his return to the Philippines and the defeat of Japan per repeated orders of President Roosevelt. […]

Battery Cheney of Fort Mills on Corregidor

Zg321. One of the 12 Inch gun barrels is being installed at Battery Cheney in Fort Mills on Corregidor Island, Manila Bay, Philippines. It looks like they are using hydraulic jacks. This is a picture from the Karl Schmidt Collection, CDSG. He just sent it now, the 17th of June 2023 and gave me […]

Philippine Scout News, Album #1

Zg300. Battery “C”, 92nd CAC (Philippine Scouts) 1931 on Corregidor with Capt. Armstrong and 1st Lt. H.C. Reuter ——————————————————– These news items are from the Philippine Scouts or are about them. ——————————————————– This section is from Philippine Scouts Heritage Society. It is their Memorial Message of 2023. Memorial Day 2023 Wishing all PSHS members a […]

78th Anniversary of raising the First Flag of Liberation on Corregidor

Zg141. We are raising the 48 Star US Flag on the flagpole of the new First Flag Memorial/Marker, just west of the former Fort Mills Parade Ground. ————————————————– Zg142. The 48 Star US Flag is raised again on Corregidor on the 78th Anniversary, 16th Feb. 2023. ———————————————– Under the guidance of the webmaster of corregidor.org […]

Malinta Hill Tunnel page 2, from John Moffitt.

Here is the original 1966 photo of the Malinta Tunnel North Entrance with a caption at the bottom. Zf930. The man in the center is indeed the correct age to have been a WWII veteran in 1966. A web search tells me that the Iowa Governor in 1966 was Harold E. Hughes and he was […]

Malinta Hill Tunnel on Corregidor, page 1

Zf856. Gen. MacArthur returns to Corregidor, image from Peter DeForest Facebook page, photo from Carl Mydans of the LIFE Collection. This picture shows Gen. Mac Arthur at the North Entrance of the Malinta Hill Tunnel, probably on the 2nd of March 1945 when he visited Corregidor and ordered the colors hoisted on the Old Flag […]

Corregidor, Other 1945 Images from San Diego Air Museum

Zf587. One of the best pictures I have seen of the Fort Mills Hospital on Corregidor. This is a San Diego Air and Space Museum WWII image from the donated album of T.B. Suitor. —————————————————— Album Description: Image from and album donated showing images from the Philippines during the Second World War. The album belonged […]

Visit Corregidor from Bataan.

Zf549. The Three Amigos. We visited Corregidor between the 14th and 18th of Feb. 2022 to commemorate the raising of the first US Flag on Corregidor by the Rock Force, the paratroopers in particular after the surrender of the Philippines to the invading Imperial Japanese Military. We called this event: “First Flag, 16th Feb. 1945 […]

Corregidor VIP visitors

Zf539. President Clinton apparently visited on the 17th Nov 1994 according to this picture, displayed in the Admin Building on Corregidor. I don’t know what the occasion was. I do know he was in the Philippines again in 1996 for the APEC Meeting in Subic Bay. ————————————————— Not only ordinary people visit Corregidor, VIPs also like […]

Corregidor News as of 2021-12-15 until 2022-12-31

Zf455. This is the location of the Corregidor Foundation INC office at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Complex in Manila. Corregidor News from, for this time period. ——————————————— A visit to the Corregidor Foundation Inc. visit on the 15th Dec. 2021. I wanted to try out my new car and the Skyway and […]