Battle of Corregidor

{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Battle of Corregidor | image = corregidor gun.jpg | image_size = 300 | caption = Victorious Japanese troops atop the Hearn Battery, 6 May 1942. | partof = the Pacific Theater of World War II | date = 5-6 May 1942 | place = Corregidor island in Manila Bay, Luzon Island, Philippines | result = Japanese victory | combatant1 = | combatant2 = | commander1 = Jonathan M. Wainwright George F. Moore Samuel L. Howard | commander2 = Masaharu Homma Kureo Taniguchi Gempachi Sato Kizon Mikami Haruji Morita Col. Koike Col. Inoue | units1 = Ground units: 4th Marine Regiment Philippine Department 59th Coast Artillery Regiment 60th Coast Artillery Regiment 91st Coast Artillery Regiment 92nd Coast Artillery Regiment 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion Company A Philippine Commonwealth Army 1st Coast Artillery Regiment 2nd Coast Artillery Regiment Battery D Battery F Naval Units: 16th Naval District U.S. Navy Inshore Patrol USS Pigeon (ASR-6) (abandoned ship) crew | units2 = Ground units: Japanese Fourteenth Army 4th Infantry Division 7th Tank RegimentAerial units: 22nd Air Brigade | strength1 = 13,000 U.S. and Filipino troops, 2 gunboats, and 1 minesweeper | strength2 = 75,000 Japanese troops | casualties1 = 800 killed1,000 wounded11,000 POWs1 gunboat sunk1 gunboat scuttled1 minesweeper scuttled | casualties2 = 900 killed1,200 wounded| }} The Battle of Corregidor, fought on 5-6 May 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.