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The entire Bataan Force gave the Japanese a beating in this line and it was not penetrated after days of battle, Field Artillery was so accurate and dissipated Japanese units getting high casualties on their side. 11th Field Artillery contributed to this victory forcing General Homma Masaharu to withdraw his troops from engagements and request ...
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.
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The main feature of the Bataan World War II Museum behind Balanga Elementary School is a life-size diorama of the surrender of the US forces in the Philippines to Japanese commanders on April 9, 1942.
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 ...
72nd Infantry Regiment, is a reserve military unit and formation of Philippine Commonwealth Army who fought during World War II in Northern Luzon and in Bataan Peninsula. 72nd Infantry was under 71st Division and was first designated as reserve unit of North Luzon Force under Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright IV, USA that can only be committed if permitted from USAFFE Headquarters.
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 ...
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.