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Various schools across the Philippines (such as the General Vicente Lim Elementary School in Tondo, Manila) are named after Lim. The former Barangay Kaput/Capot in Orion, Bataan is now named Barangay General Lim. Part of one of the more important battles during the Battle of Bataan, the Battle of Trail 2, took place here.
Orion is a municipality located in the southern part of Bataan Peninsula directly south-southwest of San Fernando, Pampanga (the regional city center and provincial capital of Pampanga) and south of Pilar, Bataan, accessible via the Roman Superhighway. It is 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Balanga and 129 kilometres (80 mi) from Manila.
With hungry, sick, and tired Filipino American troops could no longer make a stand. They broke through the line and reached Mariveles, General King moved forward to ask for terms of surrender. Luzon Force in Bataan surrendered on April 9, 1942, including 41st Infantry and became POWs.
The Orion–Bagac line showing the U.S. positions around 27 January 1942. The 41st Division was then ordered to hold east of Pantingan River in Pilar, Bataan and west of Mount Samat, along the Orion-Bagac Line, making them as the key unit to hold any southern movement of the Japanese forces through Trail 29. The 41st Division gave the stiffest ...
South Luzon Force was a corps-sized unit of the US Army Forces Far East (USAFFE) active in the Philippines between 1941 and 1942. Created along with other 3 commands under the USAFFE, it was officially announced on November 4, 1941, and BGen.
Bataan's 2nd congressional district is one of the three congressional districts of the Philippines in the province of Bataan. It has been represented in the House of Representatives since 1987. [3] The district consists of the provincial capital Balanga and adjacent eastern Bataan municipalities of Limay, Orion and Pilar.
Roman Superhighway is named after Pablo Roman Sr., a former representative of Bataan who is the acknowledged father of the export processing zone in Mariveles known as the Bataan Export Processing Zone (BEPZ; now known as Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) since October 23, 2009, with the name was concurrently used with the BEPZ/Bataan Economic Zone (BEZ) names as the zone's secondary name when ...
Throughout the main battle for the Bataan peninsula, from February to April 1942, Constabulary troops and officers fought side by side with other Philippine Commonwealth and American forces of the USAFFE, attacking and defending against Japanese troops. These battles include the Layac Line, Porac-Guagua Line, Abucay-Mauban Line, Battle of Trail ...