Wainwright's headquarters during the battle, after MacArthur relocated to Australia on 12 March 1942). The Navy tunnel system, which lay opposite the hospital, under the south side of Malinta was connected to the main tunnel by a partially completed low passageway through the quartermaster storage lateral.Įast of this was Malinta Tunnel, the location of General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters (Lieutenant General Jonathan M. The facility could be reached either through the main tunnel or by a separate outside entrance on the north side of Malinta Hill. It had 12 laterals (tunnels) and space for 1,000 beds. A separate system of tunnels north of this housed the underground hospital. It contained a main east-west passage 826 ft (252 m) long with a 24 ft (7.3 m) diameter, in addition to 25 lateral passages, each about 400 ft (120 m) long, which branched out at regular intervals from each side of the main passage. The tunnel system under Malinta Hill was the most extensive construction on Corregidor. Americans called it "The Rock" or even the " Gibraltar of the East", comparing it to the fortress that guards the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea between Europe and Africa. Bottomside was the lower area, where a dock area and the civilian town of San Jose were located. Middleside was a small plateau containing battery positions as well as barracks. Army, however, then successfully recaptured the island in 1945. Homma had to take Corregidor, since as long as the island remained in American hands, the Japanese would be denied the use of Manila Bay, the finest natural harbor in the Far East. 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 14th Japanese Imperial Army of Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma. Army Forces Far East to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon, in the northern Philippines. The fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942, ended all organized opposition by the U.S. The Battle of Corregidor ( Filipino: Labanan sa Corregidor Japanese: コレヒドールの戦い), fought on May 5–6, 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. and Filipino troops, 2 gunboats, and 1 minesweeper Corregidor island in Manila Bay, Luzon Island, Philippinesġ3,000 U.S.
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