ACV-58 (later CVE-58 and CVU-58) was named Anguilla Bay (not Auguilla, as many sources incorrectly spell), 22 January 1943, for a bay between Anguilla and Esquivel Islands, in Maurelle Island, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska (NS0305808). The name comes from the Spanish word anguila, meaning "eel," and was given in 1924 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), "from name of island, of which this is the principal indentation."

Renamed Corregidor, 3 April 1943, to commemorate the heroic but doomed defense of Corregidor (NS0305808a) during the Philippine Campaign of 1941–42. The fortress, guarding the entrance to Manila Bay, was the scene of the last gallant stand of the outnumbered American-Filipino force which surrendered to the overwhelming Japanese invaders on 6 May 1942.

(Map NS0305808 courtesy of Hamstermap.com. Map NS0305808a courtesy of Google Maps Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History, by Norman Friedman..)

NS0305808b: Siege of Corregidor, 1942. Scene in Lateral No. 12 of the Melinta Tunnel, shared by the Finance Office and the Signal Corps. Code machines and telegraph operators of the Signal Corps message center are behind the partition at right rear. Photographed by Major Paul Wint (SC), 24 April 1942. This photo was taken from Corregidor on 3 May 1942 by the last submarine —probably USS Spearfish (SS-190)—to stop there. Members of the Finance Office Staff are in the foreground. Seated at left are (L-R): SSgts Wehrner, Pressman and Salyor and Maj. O.E. Gard. Standing at rear (L-R): TSgt Davis, Col. J.R. Vance and an unidentified man. Seated at right (from rear): Col. R.J. Jenks, LtCol R.E. McElfish, PFC True, SSgt Long, MSgt Walker, PFC Ballou, PFC Kuykendall and SSgt Huff. Photo was furnished to the Signal Corps by Col J.R. Vance. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) photo, # SC 249636.

USS Corregidor (CVE-58), loaded flight deck filled with trucks, jeeps and hooded planes with folded wings, viewed from bridge. Date and location unknown.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), photo # 80-G-87932.

Captain Roscoe L. Bowman, USN, Commanding Officer, USS Corregidor (CVE-58), 23 September 1943.

Official US Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), photo # 80-G-82783.

FM-1 Wildcat fighters from USS Corregidor (CVE-58) over Butaritari Island, Makin Atoll, during pre-invasion bombardment, 20 November 1943. Photo looks to the east, with Flink Point in lower center and beach "Red" at lower right. Heavy smoke is from oil fires in the vicinity of King's Wharf. Nearest plane is piloted by Lieutenant G.V. Knudson, USNR, of VC-41.

National Archives and Records Administration photo (# 80-G-201910).

"The USS Corregidor (CVE-58) of Task Unit 52.11.2 throws up anti-aircraft fire as Jap planes make torpedo runs at dusk off Saipan I. in Marianas. Taken from USS Coral Sea (CVE-57)." Photo # CRLS 316, dated 17 June 1944.

National Archives and Records Administration photo (# 80-G-238303).

"The USS Corregidor (CVE-58) of Task Unit 52.11.2 throws up anti aircraft fire as Jap planes make torpedo runs at dusk off Saipan I. in Marianas. Taken from USS Coral Sea (CVE-57)."

"Burning plane explodes close astern."

Photo # CRLS 317, dated 17 June 1944.

National Archives photo (# 80-G-238304).

"The USS Corregidor (CVE-58) of Task Unit 52.11.2 throws up anti aircraft fire as Jap planes make torpedo runs at dusk off Saipan I. in Marianas. Taken from USS Coral Sea (CVE-57)."

"FM-2 takes off during heighth [sic] of attack: Burning plane and fire can be seen in background."

Photo # CRLS 319, dated 18 June 1944.

National Archives photo (# 80-G-238305).

Corregidor Boomerang, Vol. II, No. 25, USS Corregidor, Saturday, 24 June 1944.

USS LST-727 moored pierside, Berth 11, Navy Yard Pearl Harbor, T.H., 13 or 14 August 1945. USS Sigsbee (DD-502) is outboard, and USS Corregidor (CVE-58) at Berth 7.

US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives and Records Administration, # 80-G-K-6051 (cropped).

"The USNS Corregidor (T-CVU 58) arrived in Bremerhaven on February 27, 1956. The Corregidor carried 21 Sikorsky H-34 and 2 Bell H-13 helicopters of the US Army 587th Transportation Company (Light Helicopter), which had departed Fort Sill, OK in January 1956 and was designated to be stationed at Oberschleissheim, Munich in Bavaria. All 23 helicopters were flown from Bremerhaven to Oberschleissheim on May 2, 1956. The company was re-designated the 18th Transportation Company (Light Helicopter) on May 18, 1956 and formed part of the 8th Transportation Battalion / V. Corps."

Sources:

• US Army Pictorial Report Number 25 "The Big Picture"
• British Pathé Newsreel and Video Archive
• Walter Elkins website "U.S. Army in Germany. From Occupation Army to 'Keepers of the Peace', 1945–1989"

(Photo from Bde.-Gen. (ret.) Fritz Garben's "Fünf Jahrzehnte Heeresflieger," Lemwerder 2006.)

USNS Corregidor (T-CVU 58) at Bremerhaven, West Germany. Corregidor delivered the first batch of 26 Sikorsky H-34G helicopters to the West German Army along with some H-34As for the U.S. Army. She arrived at Bremerhaven on 27 February 1956.

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National Archives Identifier (NAID) 2569619, Local Identifier 111-TV-350.

Format: WebM (sound)  Duration: 1' 23"  Size: 640 x 480.

USNS Corregidor (T-CVU 58) circa 1956. She is carrying a deck cargo of cocooned F-86D or K Sabres and T-6 Texans. Photo from Skyfotos.

From Jane's Fighting Ships, 1956–57 edition.

USNS Corregidor (T-CVU 58) circa 1957, location unknown. Photo courtesy R.M. Scott.

From Jane's Fighting Ships, 1959–60 edition.

"DAMAGED IN HEAVY SEAS—The aircraft carrier Corregidor, above, suffered a crack in her hull in heavy seas in the Atlantic and was limping toward the Azores, April 2, for emergency repairs. The ship took in some water, but was reported in no immediate danger of sinking. (U.S. Navy Photo via AP Wirephoto)" [1958].

Two photos of the utility aircraft carrier USNS Corregidor (T-CVU 58) in July 1958 off Lebanon in the Mediterranean Sea. The left hand pic shows a U.S. Army L-20 Beaver as it takes off from Corregidor's flight deck, and the right hand pic shows U.S. Army H-34 Choctaws ready for lift off. When the Lebanon crisis broke in the summer of 1958, Corregidor was at Brindisi, Italy, and immediately lifted two U.S. Army De Havilland Canada L-20 Beaver reconnaissance planes of the 24th Infantry Division, and 10 Sikorsky H‑34 Choctaw helicopters to support the landings. U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News magazine, October 1958 issue.

The U.S. Military Sealift Command utility aircraft carrier USNS Corregidor (T-CVU 58) in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Lebanon, July 1958. When the Lebanon crisis broke in the summer of 1958, Corregidor was at Brindisi, Italy, and immediately lifted two U.S. Army De Havilland Canada L-20 Beaver reconnaissance planes of the 24th Infantry Division, and 10 Sikorsky H-34 Chocktaw helicopters to support the landings. Note the spare Vought F8U Crusader and F3H Demon aircraft on deck.

U.S. Navy All Hands magazine, May 1960 issue, p. 61.