USS Converse (DD-509)
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USS Converse, a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for George A. Converse.
USS Converse (DD-509) in San Francisco Bay, 9 October 1944.
Malinta Tunnel
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The Malinta Tunnel is a tunnel complex built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines. It was initially used as a bomb-proof storage and personnel bu
USS Converse (DD-509)
…to recapture Corregidor. Her guns destroyed gun emplacements, barges, suicide boats, and entombed about 100 enemy troops by sealing the entrance to Malinta Tunnel. After brief overhaul in Subic Bay, Converse patrolled off Corregidor until mid-March 1945, and from 18 March to 1 April joined in the invasion of Panay…
Malinta Tunnel in March 2019
Diagram of the Malinta Tunnel layout
Hospital lateral in the Malinta Tunnel
Generals Douglas MacArthur and Richard K. Sutherland at USAFFE Headquarters, Malinta Tunnel, 1 March 1942