guest пишет:
Critical also to the defense of Corregidor and the ability of its garrison to hold out against a sustained attack was the safety of its power plant.
И что из этого следует?
Я чего-то логики не улавливаю. Если электростанция критична — то её потеря должна стать причиной капитуляции. Но причиной стало другое событие.
guest пишет:
Про постоянные атаки бомбардировщиков с 28 декабря 1941 года — тоже помолчим.
Ваш же источник:
The air attacks against Corregidor ended on 6 January, the day the Bataan campaign opened. They had proved costly to the Japanese and had produced no decisive military results. But even if they had and if Homma had wished t continue to bomb the island after 6 January, he would have been unable to do so. By that time the 5th Air Group was preparing to move to Thailand, and Homma was left with only a small air force which he could ill spare for attacks against Corregidor. Except for sporadic raids by three or four planes and occasional dive bombing and strafing, the first aerial bombardment was over.
Или у меня ПРОМТ работает неправильно или бомбардировки были прекращены 6 января.
А вот результаты бомбежек:
The armament of the island suffered comparatively slight damage. The coastal batteries with their magazines and power plants had been bombproofed before the war and escaped almost unscathed. The more exposed antiaircraft units suffered more from the bombings than the seacoast batteries, but such damage as was caused was repaired quickly, usually within twelve hours.
ВОт вторая волна бомбардировок (24-28 марта), точнее её результаты:
By the beginning of April, the aerial bombardment was virtually over. little additional damage had been received and comparatively few casualties had been suffered by the men who had had two months to prepare
Кстати, тут же впервые упоминают о боеприпасах:
The most serious limitations on the effectiveness of the 3-inch guns arose from the shortage of mechanically fuzed ammunition, which could reach to a height of 30,000 feet. There was an adequate supply of ammunition with the powder train furze, effective to a height of about 24,000 feet, but only enough of the longer range type for one of the ten antiaircraft batteries.
Если я правильно перевел — пробем с боеприпасами НЕТ. Нехватает только снарядов определенного типа.
guest пишет:
С начала марта — там уже 240-мм гаубицы.
Разве?
A Japanese artillery unit called the Kondo Detachment was indeed moving into position along the southern shore of Manila Bay. Formed by 14th Army on 24 January, this unit was under the command of Maj. Toshinori Kondo and consisted initially of four 105-mm. guns and two 150-mm. cannons.
The Japanese force which assembled in the Pico de Loro hills during the first two weeks of March was considerably stronger than the Kondo Detachment. To that unit had been added the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, the 2d Independent Heavy Artillery Battery, both equipped with 240-mm. howitzers, and the 3d Tractor Unit with prime movers for the heavy guns. The Kondo Detachment had been dissolved and a new organization, the Hayakawa Detachment, formed. Col. Masayoshi Hayakawa, commander of the 1st Heavy Artillery, led the reorganized force, and, according to the usual Japanese practice, gave it his name. By 15 March all preparations for the stepped-up artillery bombardment of the harbor defenses had been completed.
The artillery duel which had begun early in February came to an end on 22 March. Though the Americans reported artillery fire from the Cavite shore until early in April, it could not have come from the Hayakawa Detachment. That force had been disbanded on the 22d and its elements ordered to rejoin their parent units for the final attack against Bataan, then about to open. Whatever guns remained behind were of small caliber and were intended only to annoy the defenders.
Короче говоря:
Вот ссылка:
http://www.corregidor.org/btty_histories/control/open.htm
И пусть каждый оценивает сам — можно ли назвать описываемые события атаками. Какие орудия Коррехидора стреляли, куда стреляли, сколько выстрелов сделали...