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Philippines adopts Japan Standard Time at 12:00 a.m. moving the clock one hour ahead. [1] Bicolano guerilla forces engage the amassed concentration of Japanese garrisons in Naga. May 3 – Japanese starts to occupy the Philippines. May 5 – Japanese troops lands on Corregidor Island for the last stand of attack by Filipino and American forces.
The Philippines was considered to be of great strategic importance because their capture by Japan would pose a significant threat to the U.S. As a result, 135,000 troops and 227 aircraft were stationed in the Philippines by October 1941. However, Luzon—the largest island in the Philippines—was captured by Imperial Japanese forces in 1942.
The 76,000 starving and sick American and Filipino defenders in Bataan surrendered on 9 April 1942, and were forced to endure the infamous Bataan Death March on which 7,000–10,000 died or were murdered. The 13,000 survivors on Corregidor surrendered on 6 May. Japan occupied the Philippines for over three years, until the surrender of Japan. A ...
In 1936, Douglas MacArthur was appointed Field Marshal of the Philippine army, given the task of developing an effective defensive force before independence in 1946. Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army General George C. Marshall intended to make the Philippines reasonably defensible, "...we felt that we could block the Japanese advance and block their entry into war by their fear of what would ...
Battle of Corregidor 5–6 May 1942; Battle of Cebu 12–19 May 1942; Japanese occupation of the Philippines (1941–1945) 8 May 1942 – 5 July 1945; Philippine resistance against Japan 1941–45; Battle of the Philippine Sea 19–20 June 1944; Battle of Leyte 17 October – 26 December 1944; Philippines campaign (1944–45) 20 October 1944 ...
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The Philippines Campaign ended in decisive Japanese victory. The Japanese occupation of the Philippines began. The Battle of the Coral Sea ended in Japanese tactical victory but Allied strategic victory. The aircraft carrier USS Lexington was scuttled due to battle damage. Japanese forces took the northern Burmese city of Myitkyina. [7]
The Philippines campaign (Filipino: Kampanya sa Pilipinas, Spanish: Campaña en las Filipinas del Ejercito Japonés, Japanese: フィリピンの戦い, romanized: Firipin no Tatakai), also known as the Battle of the Philippines (Filipino: Labanan sa Pilipinas) or the Fall of the Philippines, was the invasion of the United States territory of the Philippines by the Empire of Japan during the ...