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Due to the Philippines remaining virtually cut-off in early 1942
from the friendly outside world, the battle and fall of the
Island's has attracted little interest in the stories of that
desperate and tragic fight. Of the many lost or unwritten due to
its rapid fall, this book contains seventeen of those I feel best
tell and represent that bitter and oft forgotten campaign.
From December 7, 1941, until the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the
war with Japan was a losing one. It was to be the darkest period of
the almost four-year war. During those days, no times were more
trying than the final hours for the men trapped on Wake Island,
Bataan, Corregidor, Hong Kong and Singapore. This book, outlining
the bitter end to their ordeals, covers the crucial days and final
hours that led to their surrender, a capitulation that would shock
the free world.
Most Pacific theater World War II battles that have repeatedly
drawn the interest of American military historians and writers have
involved hard-fought victories or became turning points in the war,
i.e., the battles of Guadalcanal, Midway, and Iwo Jima. With the
exception of the Battle of Wake Island, few, if any, battles have
been the subject of popular discourse when their inevitable outcome
was defeat. The Battle of Bataan is a case in point. Individual
battles were won on Bataan, of course, but the campaign would be
mostly remembered as a series of prolonged, torturous conflicts
that could be classified as nothing more than single victories in a
lost cause. Fought with obsolete and discarded World War I
equipment by an army made up of mostly untrained Filipinos, the
Battle of Bataan has truly become the 'forgotten battle' of World
War II despite the fact that it represents the single largest
surrender in American and Filipino military history. This book
seeks to fill a gap by providing a complete history of the battle
by also looking at the events which led up to the fall of Bataan.
It begins with an overview of the Philippine, American, and
Japanese forces which fought on Bataan, followed by chapters
looking at the military buildup, the counterattack in the II Corps
and the withdrawal from Abucay, the Japanese invasion, the Battle
for the Points, the Battle of the Pockets, and, finally, the
surrender and the death march. The book contains dozens of period
and modern photographs taken at Bataan, along with several maps.
Also included throughout the work are several poems of Lieutenant
Henry G. Lee, a member of the U.S. 31st Infantry on Bataan whose
impressive and sensitive poetry was found buried at the Cabanatuan
POW camp in 1945.
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