Fort Mills

Fort Mills
Part of Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays
Corregidor/Fort Mills with other forts inset
Fort Mills is located in Philippines
Fort Mills
Fort Mills
Location in the Philippines
Site information
Controlled byUnited States
Site history
Builtcompleted 1910
Built byUnited States Army Corps of Engineers
Battles/wars
Garrison information
Past
commanders
Col. Paul D. Bunker
Garrison
The Harbor of Manila and Surrounding Areas

Fort Mills (Corregidor, the Philippines) was the location of US Major General George F. Moore's headquarters for the Philippine Department's Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays in early World War II, and was the largest seacoast fort in the Philippines.[2][3] Most of this Coast Artillery Corps fort was built 1904–1910 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Taft program of seacoast defense. The fort was named for Brigadier General Samuel Meyers Mills Jr., Chief of Artillery 1905–1906.[4] It was the primary location of the Battle of Corregidor in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941–42, and of the recapture of Corregidor in February 1945, both in World War II.[5]