Hello everyone, welcome to this week’s episode taking you to the Battle of Corregidor, fought on May 5-6, 1942, in Manila Bay’s rocky fortress. Picture 13,000 American and Filipino troops, led by General Jonathan Wainwright, facing 75,000 Japanese under General Masaharu Homma in a desperate two-day clash. This is the story of World War Two’s last Allied stand in the Philippines—a five-month holdout crushed by sixteen thousand shells and a final invasion that left no escape. I’ll walk you through the courage and collapse that defined this Pacific turning point.