The prelude truly started on Dec. 8th, 1941, and in ensuing days, when the Japanese bombarded Manila, Cavite Naval Yard, and different targets, for example, Clark Field and Nichols Field on the Main Island of Luzon.
General Douglas A. Macarthur was given the order of all U.S. troops and Marines in the Philippines, and Generals Jonathan M.Wainwright and General Edward King were set under Macarthur.
In following months as the Japanese intrusion of the Philippines started vigorously, fights were battled on the ground, the U.S. 31stInfantry, and the Army Air Corps faculty, numerous being made into infantrymen, assuming a significant part. Likewise, the Philippine Scouts, a division of the U.S. Armed force, contributed gigantic powers to help the Americans. Weapons they utilized were obsolete Lewis firearms, Springfield M1 Garrand Rifles, and the never-again utilized Stuart M3 Tank.
Numerous fights were won against the Japanese intruders between December 1941 and May 1942, and the exertion is credited with keeping down the Japanese from taking Australia. Likewise, this gave the United States time to modify its naval force, which had been handicapped at Pearl Harbor.
Thus, on April 9th, 1942, General Edward King surrendered his drained, unhealthy and starving troops, around 10,000 Americans and 60,000 Filipino, to General Homma. What took after was weeks of torment and ill-use, as the men were walked north to P.O.W. Camp O'Donnell, and now and again Bilibid Prison in Manila. This was later called the "Bataan Death March." Many passed on and numerous had diarrhea and jungle fever, yet were not gave any consideration to their ailments. Maybe, the powerless tumbled to the back of the long lines and were shot or executed.
Some perplexity exists over what the March truly was. One regular confusion is that the men who surrendered from Corregidor were a piece of it. They were not, the men on Corregidor were surrendered to the Japanese about a week after the Death March was over, by broad Wainwright.
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