Army Forces in the Far East by President Franklin Roosevelt, ordered the American troops in the Philippines to retreat to the southern Bataan peninsula until enough reinforcements arrived. General Douglas MacArthur, newly appointed the commander of U.S. These outposts soon turned into one of the earliest battlefronts with Japan. American Post at Bataanīefore its formal entry into World War II, America placed defense outposts in the Philippines to protect its main Pacific possession. Thousands more would die in prisoner of war camps before they were liberated three years later. The captured American and Filipino men were then subjected to the Bataan Death March, a torturous march of more than 65 miles, in which thousands of troops died due to starvation, dehydration, and gratuitous violence.
On the morning of April 9, 1942, following four months of intense battle and no hopes of reinforcements, the American troops on the Bataan Peninsula of the Philippines surrendered to the Japanese.
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