A Legacy of Heroes: Story of Bataan and Corregidor

ALEGACY OF HEROES

STORY OF BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR

STORY OF BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR

twenty two eye witness

gave their testimony during bataan and corregidor

INTRODUCTION

A LEGACY OF HEROES, THE STORY OF BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR" WAS STORIES OF FILIPINO WAR VETERANS OF WORLD WAR 2 ABOUT THEIR HEROISM AND VALOR.

THROUGH THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF PATRIOTIC FILIPINO AND AMERICAN MEN WHO FOUGHT, THE DOCUMENTARY RETURNS TO THE EVENTS OF THE WAR, BEGINNING FROM THE ATTACKS OF THE JAPANESE AT PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII AND THEN THE PHILIPPINES IMMEDIATELY AFTER, TO THE BATTLES IN BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR AND THE DEATH MARCH WHERE COURAGE AND SACRIFICE ROSE TO ITS HEIGHTS CREATING A SAGA IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY AND A LEGACY OF HEROES THAT WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED.

TESTIMONIES

THAT WAS THEIR BEST YEAR

NO CORRUPT & LOW INFLATION RATE

YOUNG FILIPINOS AND SOLDIER

THOUSAND YOUNG FILIPINOS

WEAPONS AND UNIFORMED

LACK OF WEAPON, ENFIELD RIFLE MODEL 1917

ROTC AND EDUCATION

TO PREPARE STUDENTS FOR WAR

DISADVANTAGE OF AMERICAN DEFENDERS

INFASTRUCTURE ARE DAMAGED

THE STORY OF BATAAN

THE STORY OF BATAAN

WORLD WAR II

NOTABLE PEOPLE

MAJ. GENERAL EDWARD KING

GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

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PRESIDENT MANUELL.QUEZON

GENERAL NAgANO KAMEiCHIRO

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BATAAN

BATAAN

bataan death march

bataan death march

AT THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR II IN APRIL 1942, 76,000 PRISONERS OF WAR-66,000 FILIPINOS AND 10,000 AMERICAN, WERE FORCED TO MARCH THROUGH THE PHILIPPINES FOR APPROXIMATELY 66 MILES (106 KM).

LEAD UP TO THE MARCH

LEAD UP TO THE MARCH

ON DECEMBER 7, 1941, IMMEDDIATELY AFTER ATTACKING THE AMERICAN NAVAL STATION IN PEARL HARBOR, HAWAII, THE JAPANESE FORCES INITIATED AND INVASION OF THE PHILIPPINES BY DESTROYING AIRFIELD, BASES, HARBOR, AND SHIPYARDS.

bataan death march

bataan death march

DURING

AFTER

BEFORE

THE STORY OF CORREGIDOR

INTRODUCTION

EARLY IN 1942, U.S. MARINES ON CORREGIDOR CELEBRATE THE ARRIVAL OF A NEW SHIPMENT OF CAMEL CIGARETTES. THESE GUYS ARE MEMBERS OF THE 4TH MARINE REGIMENT, WHICH HAS BEEN STRENGTHENED BY MARINES FROM MARINE BARRACKS OLONGAPO AND THE PREVIOUS 1ST SPECIAL DEFENSE BATTALION, WHICH WAS HEADQUARTERED IN CAVITE. SEVERAL ASIATIC FLEET SAILORS FOUGHT IN THE REGIMENT'S RANKS AS ITS 4 TH PROVISIONAL BATTALION TO DEFEND THE BEACHES OF CORREGIDOR AGAINST NUMEROUS JAPANESE AMPHIBIOUS INVASION ATTEMPTS AFTER LOSING OR SCUTTLING THEIR SHIPS. THESE MARINES WERE GIVEN SIGNIFICANTLY BETTER RATIONS COMPARED TO THEIR AMERICAN COUNTERPARTS SINCE THE ASIATIC FLEET HAD EFFICIENTLY DISTRIBUTED ENORMOUS QUANTITIES OF SUPPLIES TO BATAAN FROM CAVITE. EQUIVALENTS IN THE ARMY.

JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT

JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT

IN FULL JONATHAN MAYHEW WAINWRIGHT, (BORN AUGUST 23, 1883, WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON, U.S.—DIED SEPTEMBER 2, 1953, SAN NTONIO, TEXAS), U.S. ARMY GENERAL WHO WON DISTINCTION AS THE HERO OF BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR IN THE DEFENSE OF THE PHILIPPINES AGAINST JAPANESE ATTACK DURING WORLD WAR II.

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GENERAL MASAHARU HOMMA

PRESIDENTMANUEL L. QUEZON

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Corregidor is a national shrine commemorating the battle fought there by U.S. and Filipino forces against overwhelming numbers of Japanese during World War II and located at the entrance of Manila Bay

CORREGIDOR

CORREGIDOR

WHAT HAPPENED IN CORREGIDOR?

THE LEAD UP TO THE BATTLE

May 5, 1942, after the Japanese victory at Bataan, Corregidor remained one of the last allied strongholds in the Philippines. The Japanese constant aerial bombardment attacks wore down the American and Filipino defenders. The Allied troops could not hold the Japanese off any longer, so General Jonathan Wainwright, commander of the U.S. Armed Forces in the Philippines, offered to surrender Corregidor to Japanese General Masaharu Homma, but Homma wanted the complete, unconditional capitulation of all American forces throughout the Philippines.

·Wainwright had little choice given the odds against him and the poor physical condition of his troops, he had already lost 800 men. He was forced to surrender on MAY 6, 1942, 27 days after Bataan has fallen.

·Corregidor POW was marched to the city of manila to bilibid they then joined the Bataan POW in camp O’Donnell.

The Americans returned to the Philippines in October 1944, beginning with the recapture of Leyte. This victory was followed by the return of General MacArthur and the struggle for Luzon and the race for Manila. One week into the Allied battle for Luzon, U.S. Airborne troops parachuted onto Corregidor to take out the Japanese garrison there.

THE 503RD REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM (RCT) SUCCESSFULLY ATTACKED CORREGIDOR "THE ROCK" ON FEBRUARY 16, 1945. THE JAPANESE LAUNCHED THEIR ATTACK ON CORREGIDOR WITH AN AERIAL BOMBARDMENT ON DECEMBER 29, 1941, A FEW DAYS AFTER MACARTHUR MOVED HIS HEADQUARTERS THERE. ON FEBRUARY 5, AMERICAN FORCES LANDED IN MANILA, FORCING THE JAPANESE OUT OF THE CITY WHILE A LARGE NUMBER OF JAPANESE SOLDIERS FLED OVER THE BAY TO BATAAN AND CORREGIDOR, THE SITES OF AMERICAN DEFEAT IN 1942.

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