A concrete battleship Fort Drum was built on a small rocky islet originally known as El Fraile Island, strategically located at the mouth of Manila Bay just south of Corregidor Island. The Spanish ...

Bettmann//Getty Images The surrender of U.S. forces on the island of Corregidor made Fort Drum’s position untenable. The fort's guns were quiet for decades, but things quickly changed after the ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. -- The pages of the 31st Infantry ... the Soldiers buried the bowl in Corregidor so the Japanese would not confiscate it. The bowl was reclaimed in 1945 when the Philippines ...