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71st Field Artillery battered, hungry, lack ammunition, and although tired with strength dwelling due to casualties was still fighting. However, the order came to surrender as Major General King surrendered all his troops in Bataan. [3]
Retreat to Bataan [ edit ] Further defensive campaigns did not stop Japanese advance and War Plan Orange 3 was put into effect, all units to retreat to Bataan Peninsula. 91st Division along with its units reached Bataan on January 4, 1942, and again was assigned as reserve force and later was assigned to II Corps under Major General George S ...
Bataan Defense Force was surrendered by General Edward P. King Jr. Commander of Luzon Force on April 9, 1942. The regiment surrendered and was assembled in Mariveles, Bataan where they were forced to walked 65 miles to San Fernando, Pampanga came to be known as Bataan Death March .
Apr. 9—The Bataan Death March is fading into a past growing more distant with each passing year. But many who attended a Tuesday ceremony in Santa Fe marking the 82nd anniversary of Bataan's ...
The day commemorates the April 9, 1942, surrender of more than 12,000 American troops and 66,000 Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines to the Japanese.
Fall of Bataan historical marker, Bataan Provincial Capitol grounds. At dawn on April 9, 1942, against the orders of Generals Douglas MacArthur and Jonathan Wainwright, the commander of the Luzon Force, Bataan, Major General Edward P. King, Jr., surrendered more than 76,000 starving and disease-ridden soldiers (64,000 Filipinos and 12,000 Americans) to Japanese troops.
In Bataan, 51st Division was assigned at Eastern Sector with units mostly from South Luzon Force. It was renamed to II Philippine Corps and form Abucay Hacienda Line. 51st Division was put in the middle of II Corps Area, with 52nd Infantry in right of 51st and left of 53rd Infantry.
31st Field Artillery Regiment, is a unit of 31st Infantry Division of the Philippine Army under the USAFFE, mobilized in August 1941 but was equipped in November, and was in action December 1941 to April 9, 1942.