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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, the Imperial Japanese Army captured Corregidor, the tadpole-shaped island situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, once known as the “Gibraltar of the East.” On ...

(Tribune News Service) — It’s time for another try at the gold. Several members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation plan to renew a push to confer a collective Congressional Gold Medal on ...

CORREGIDOR, Philippines — Strategically located at the entrance of Manila Bay, Corregidor is a small rocky island in the Philippines about 48 kilometers west of Manila. Once an island fortress, ...

When LTC John L. Erickson jumped out of a C-47 above Corregidor at just after 8:30 a.m. Feb. 16, 1945, he stepped into history as the first American paratrooper out the door in the effort to reclaim ...

Kingston — Tucked away in a vault in the Army museum at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, pressed behind glass in a wooden frame, is a four-inch square piece of American history. A small ...

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