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Corregidor surrenders to Japanese
Wednesday, May 6, 1942 www.onwar.com
In the Philippines... Formal American resistance to the Japanese invasion ends with General Wainwright’s surrender on Corregidor. Japanese attacks continue against local resistance on Mindanas.
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The surrender of Fort Drum.
At 1140, 6 May 1942, the Fort Commander of Fort Drum was summoned to the telephone and told by the High Command to demolish the armament on Fort Drum in accordance with pre-arranged plans. We were told to complete the demolition and surrender by 1200. This gave us exactly 20 minutes. Each officer on the Fort, assisted by a few key enlisted men took certain material which had been prepared in advance and proceed to complete the job. The recoil cylinders of the guns were drained and obstructions placed in their muzzles. Then the guns were loaded with a round and fired by means of electrical primers with long wires attached, so that they might be fired from the light switches in the center of the ship on the “Typhoon Deck.” All of the guns on the Fort were handled in this manner, except the 3-inch battery and the 6-inch gun in Battery Roberts on the south side. The 3-inch battery had sustained a hit on the breech from a Japanese bomb some 25 minutes prior to the surrender order. The breech of the 3-inch gun was thrown over board and all the mechanism and the breech recess were sledged with a heavy sledge-hammer. The upper 6-inch gun in Battery Roberts had been permanently put out of action by Japanese artillery fire. All the communications material was smashed and thrown over the side. The plotting room, with all of its’ equipment, was cut into small bits with an axe, all of the records were thrown into the water. All of the small arms ammunition was carried to the top deck and thrown over the side. The remaining 14-inch powder cans had their tops taken off and buckets of salt water were poured into the cans with the powder. The 6-inch powder magazines were flooded with salt water from the sprinkler system, but the result of this was unknown.
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As the American and Japanese fleets sought each other out in the opening maneuvers of the climactic Battle of the Coral Sea on 6 May 1942, Neosho refueled the carrier Yorktown and heavy cruiser Astoria, then retired from the carrier force with a lone escort, the destroyer Sims.