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Originally Posted by Seadog
In my minor opinion, they should have made plans to evacuate as best they could. A Dunkirk type evac of American troops and everyone that could not be evacuated should have been sent into the hills to organize into guerilla units. Trying to hold Corregidor was a major mistke. It just trapped the troops without a way out.
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A Dunkirk-type evacutaion would have been an unworkable scenerio as the Fillipino-American forces on Corregidor were cut off for several hundred miles in every direction. There were few, if any ships of any size left to withdraw and carry its garrison to an unfriendly, Japanese occupied shore and no fuel remaining to propel what few ships that remained.
My principle question was, could the garrison on Corregidor have lasted until the early weeks of June, 1942, once the initial Japanese landing had been beaten off and would they have made any additional difference in the fighting of the Pacific War?