. We tried to put Corregidor out of our minds as we loaded for Mindoro, but it had been imprinted into our lives - every one of us had left friends behind.  There really wasn't any means of knowing how many Japanese were  hidden all around us. A closed tunnel was a safe tunnel but there just wasn't enough explosive in the world to close every hidey hole on that island. When they exploded the entire hill at Monkey Pt., it was  almost like we lost confidence on the very ground we stood on.