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The Battle of Bataan is referenced among important battles of American history in the song The House I Live In, sang by Frank Sinatra in the film of the same name and later taken up by Paul Robeson and various other singers: "The little bridge at Concord, where Freedom's fight began, / Our Gettysburg and Midway, and the story of Bataan".
The Battle for the Recapture of Bataan (Filipino: Labanan para sa Bataan) from 31 January to 21 February 1945, by US forces and Allied Filipino guerrillas from the Japanese, part of the campaign for the liberation of the Philippines, was waged to secure the western shore of Manila Bay to enable the use of its harbor and open new supply lines for American troops engaged in the crucial battle ...
Service / branch: United States Army: Years of service: 1909–1947: Rank: Brigadier General: Service number: 0-2642: Commands: Fort Benjamin Harrison 31st Division (Philippines) 45th Infantry Regiment: Battles / wars: Battle of Bataan: Awards: Distinguished Service Cross Distinguished Service Medal Silver Star Prisoner of War Medal
Apr. 6—More than 1,800 New Mexicans fought the Japanese army in the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. In the end, after the infamous 65-mile Bataan Death March and years in prisoner of war ...
Afterward, prisoners were forced on a 65-mile march, later known as the Bataan Death March, from the peninsula to a prisoner-of-war camp that resulted in thousands of deaths along the way, while ...
Arthur William Wermuth Jr. (May 3, 1915 – June 13, 1981), dubbed the "One-Man Army of Bataan," was a United States Army officer during World War II and a prisoner of war from April 1942 until August 1945.
On the grounds of an elementary school in a small Philippine village, the fuse was lit on one of the worst war crimes of the 20th century while at the same time setting in motion one of the ...
Colonel Thomas F. Breslin (1885–1942) was a civil engineer and a civilian contractor for the United States Army.He was pinned as a Colonel at the outbreak of the Battle of the Philippines and died during the Bataan Death March, the brutal POW march in the aftermath of the Battle of Bataan.