We woke up at 06:00 this morning to go the second most bombed island during the Second World War after Malta, It is called Corregidor. We took a boat from the capital, Manila to Corregidor. It took such a long time to get there, one and fifteen minutes to be exact.
When we got there we got a tour bus and a guide. It’s built on a massive volcano and has lots of Japanese caves in w
hich they hid from the Americans and the Filipinos. Our guide was called Armand and (if you understand Filipino) he was very funny as well. He first took us to some batteries. Massive guns which needed 14 men at the very least. However, battery hearth, battery smith and a few others could fire up to 17 miles and needed 24 men to work it. The guns were quite clever and were extremely well hid from bombers. The guns would move back, then move forward and up, fire and back down again so the bombers wouldn’t know what had happened or where it had come from. 
We also found and went in the Malinta tunnel that was originally an American tunnel until the Japanese took Corregidor and made it theirs. It was a hospital and a good hiding place until the Americans and Filipinos fought for it and Corregidor back. The Japanese also had a saying that said that they should commit suicide instead of being captured. So hundreds of Japanese blew themselves up. Nowadays you can still see the marks on the walls and dents in the ground were they did blow themselves up!
We also saw a light and sound show of the Malinta tunnel where the guide showing us to the next line in the dark tunnel fell asleep standing up!
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