Back in May 1942, after an incredibly successful campaign in the Pacific Theatre, the Japanese captured the last bastion of ...

Corregidor is a small island. At just over two square miles, it’s shaped like a thought bubble in the mouth of Manila Bay. It may be a tiny dot in the ocean, but it’s also a well-positioned dot.

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this photo provided by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, paratroopers of the 503rd Paratroop Regiment float to the earth on the top of Corregidor as they began the American assault on "The Rock" guarding ...