As the combined American and Filipino forces made a last stand, the delay cost the Japanese valuable time and prevented immediate victory across the Pacific.

The Bataan Peninsula and the island of Corregidor were the only remaining Allied strongholds in the region.ĭespite their lack of supplies, American and Filipino forces managed to fight the Japanese for three months, engaging them initially in a fighting retreat southward. By this time, the Japanese controlled nearly all of Southeast Asia.

and Filipino forces in the islands, General Douglas MacArthur, consolidated all of his Luzon-based units on the Bataan Peninsula to fight against the Japanese army. In January 1942, forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded Luzon along with several islands in the Philippine Archipelago after the bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor.

The battle represented the most intense phase of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II. The Battle of Bataan ( Tagalog: Labanan sa Bataan January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Japan during World War II.

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