The Siege of Corregidor

Seth Paridon and Jon Parshall walk through the siege of Corregidor from December 1941 through the fortress's fall in May 1942, examining why a defensive position designed for a previous era of warfare became an obsolete trap under Japanese air and artillery superiority. The pairing of Paridon's archival depth with Parshall's operational judgement makes this a properly detailed treatment of a campaign that often gets reduced to a footnote after Bataan. Worth pairing with the McManus airborne episode below for the 1945 bookend.