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Edward Postell King Jr. (July 4, 1884 – August 31, 1958) was a major general in the United States Army who gained prominence for leading the defense of the Bataan ...
On 9 April, the 70,000 troops on Bataan surrendered under the command of Major General Edward P. King. On 5 May, the Japanese attacked Corregidor. Due to lack of supplies (mainly food and ammunition) [11] and in the interest of minimizing casualties, Wainwright notified Japanese General Masaharu Homma he was surrendering on 6 May. [10]
He moved to Corregidor island and assumed all command and selected MGen. Edward P. King Jr an artillery officer to command all forces in Luzon but he can effective just command on US and Filipino forces are isolated only in Bataan as couldn't communicate with those units isolated in Zambales, Cordillera, and Sierra Madre mountains.
Edward King (Royal Navy officer) (1774–1807), captain during the Napoleonic Wars; Edward Leonard King (1873–1933), American football player and coach; general in U.S. Army; Edward P. King (1884–1958), American major general who led US forces on Bataan during World War II; Edward Durnford King (1771–1862), Royal Navy officer
National Former POW Recognition Day commemorates the April 9, 1942 surrender of approximately 10,000 United States military personnel and 65,000 Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines by Major General Edward P. King to the invading Imperial Japanese Army headed by General Masaharu Homma. Bataan, thereafter, is ...
Beebe, being MacArthur's deputy chief of staff, had no choice but to relay the message of War Department to Wainwright, who was in Bataan. Wainwright assumed the command in Corregidor and made Beebe his chief of staff. Major General Edward P. King Jr was selected to replace Wainwright in Luzon Force. [1]
Arnold John Funk (August 13, 1895 – December 29, 1980) was an American brigadier general and chief of staff to General Edward P. King, commander of the Philippine-American forces, during the Battle of Bataan. [1] [2] Funk earned a B.S. degree from Oregon Agricultural College in 1916. He was commissioned as an infantry officer in June 1917.
Luzon Force - Major General Edward P.King Jr; Visayan Force - Brigadier General Bradford Chynoweth; Mindanao Force - Major General William F. Sharp; Coast Artillery and Harbor Defense Command - Major General George Moore, USA; US Army Forces Australia - Lieutenant General George Brett, USAAC; I US Corps - Major General Robert Eichelberger, USA