The Last Lieutenant

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Corregidor looking east to west where Manila Bay exits into the South China Sea. 

'Topside' on Corregidor. Peacetime parade ground on this three mile long island. The Army barracks in the background were known as Mile-long barracks." 

One of the fourteen inch World War I style cannons -- range, 27,000 yards -- found on the fortified islands of Manila Bay. The advantage was that the cannon disappeared or lowered itself below ground level after firing; thus was out of sight. The advent of aircraft nullified this concept in World War II, rendering Corregidor's fortifications useless. 

Bataan death march. 

Corregidor's Malinta Tunnel during the April-May siege of 1942. Normally set up to garrison 5,000 artillerymen, Corregidor became a desperate refuge after the fall of the Bataan Peninsula. By the time Corregidor fell, its population had swelled to over 11,000. The men crowded in this photo were on 1/2 rations. 

Japanese Army soldiers after capturing Corregidor
 

Chester W. Nimitz, Admiral, (later Fleet Admiral) USN -- CinCPac 

Lieutenant Commander John H. Morrill, II, a day after his arrival in Darwin, Australia with seventeen of his crew off the minesweeper USS Quail. Morrill, who retired as a rear admiral stands in the pith helmet just to the left of their hand-made flag. The distance from Manila Bay to Darwin was over 1,900 miles and took twenty-nine days.

Cutaway drawing of a Gato class submarine.

Admiral Karl Doenitz, Germany's Chief Flag Officer of U-boats with the title of
Befehshaber der U-boote (BdU)

Major General Jonathan M. (Skinny) Wainwright at the microphone of radio station KZRH in Manila, ordering that US and Filipino troops in all the Philippine Islands lay down their arms and surrender to the nearest Japanese garrison. Note the Japanese interpreter listening to Wainwright's right.

Mortar pitts of Battery Geary. These 12 inch M-1908 mortars could hurl a 670 pound projectile 15,200 yards (over 7 1/2 miles) and had a lethal radius of 500 yards.