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4th Composite Group

:: Transferred from: Rockwell Field, California, stationed at: Fort Mills, Corregidor Island, Philippines, 10 March 1920

Algueña

In the administrative reform carried out by the Bourbons, it remained equally included in Orihuela’s district of corregidor until 1833, the year in which the current provincial system was established.

Andrés Bonifacio

In his late teens, he worked as a mandatorio for the British trading firm Fleming and Company, where he rose to become a corregidor of tar, rattan and other goods.

Battery Way

In an Episode of Strangebrew, Tado and Erning are looking for some battery for Tado's Flashlight when a ghost appeared to them and told them to go to Corregidor where there are many batteries (actually the Battery Way).

Del Monte Airfield

When the evacuation party arrived by PT boat from Corregidor on March 16, four B-17 Flying Fortresses from Australia flew up to Del Monte: B-17E 41-2408, B-17E 41-2429, B-17E 41-2434 and B-17E 41-2447 and evacuated them to Batchelor Field.

Gun turret

Gun turrets have been placed in static, land fortifications such as the Maginot Line forts in France and particularly in coastal artillery defences such as Fort Drum, the "concrete battleship", near Corregidor, Philippines.

Iejima

The surrender preparations started on August 17, 1945, with the flight of two Japanese Betty bombers to Iejima where the Japanese emissaries transferred to U.S. Army Air Force C-54's to complete their journey to Corregidor to meet with General Douglas MacArthur's staff.

Malinta

Malinta Tunnel, an underground bunker on Corregidor Island in the Philippines

Malinta Tunnel

A plaque in the Malinta Tunnel, donated and placed by a Texas A&M Aggies club with permission from the Philippine government, now marks the spot of the most well-known Aggie Muster that took place during World War II in 1942 on the island of Corregidor.

Today, Malinta Tunnel is the venue of an audio-visual presentation by National Artist Lamberto V. Avellana of events that occurred during World War II, including the evacuation of President Quezon and General MacArthur by Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three from Corregidor to Mindanao.

Miguel José de Azanza, Duke of Santa Fe

In 1788 he was corregidor of Salamanca, and the following year intendant of the army in Valencia.

Sacasa

He married Maria Lucia Marenco Lopez del Corral, legitimate daughter of Pedro Marenco who was Corregidor of Matagalpa and Chontales and Mercedes Lopez del Corral who was born in the province of Cartago, Costa Rica.

Samuel L. Howard

In the early stages of World War II, General Howard commanded the 4th Marine Regiment on Bataan and Corregidor from December 7, 1941 to May 6, 1942.

Selma Calmes

Calmes was born in Corregidor, an island in Manila Bay, in 1940; however, her family returned to the United States the same year she was born.

Wilhelm D. Styer

General Styer also chaired the tribunal that tried General Masaharu Homma (1887–1946), the Japanese conqueror of Bataan and Corregidor, for war crimes, and ordered Homma's execution.


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