The Fall of the PhilippinesOffice of the Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1953 - 626 páginas A detailed description of the three-month defense of Bataan, the siege of Corregidor, the soldier[alpha]s life in the crowded intimacy of Malinta Tunnel, MacArthur[alpha]s evacuation, and the surrender of 78,000 American and Allied troops. |
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Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
11th Division 14th Army Opns 1st Battalion 21st Division 26th Cavalry 31st Infantry 3d Battalion 57th Infantry Abucay advance Air Force American Asiatic Fleet attack Bataan battery beach bombers bombs Brereton Brig Brigade Calumpit Chief of Staff Clark Field coast Colonel command Corps Rpt Corregidor December defense Detachment Diary east enemy fantry Field Artillery Filipinos fire flank Formosa guns headquarters Hist Homma Ibid II Corps island January Japanese Jones Lamon Bay landing Lingayen Lingayen Gulf MacArthur Mallonée Manila Bay Mariveles Marshall Mauban Memo ment miles Mindanao morning move naval night North Luzon Force Notebooks OCMH officers ordered Phil Rcds Philippine Army Philippine Division planes position Quinauan regiment River road Route Rpt of Opns Scouts sector supplies talion tanks Tarlac tion Trail troops U.S. Army units USAFFE USAFFE-USFIP Rpt Wainwright withdrawal
Passagens conhecidas
Página 71 - Negotiations with Japan appear to be terminated to all practical purposes with only the barest possibility that the Japanese Government might come back and offer to continue. Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment.
Página 572 - In spite of all the handicaps of complete isolation, lack of food and ammunition you have given the world a shining example of patriotic fortitude and self-sacrifice. The American people ask no finer example of tenacity, resourcefulness, and steadfast courage.
Página 584 - In every camp and on every naval vessel soldiers, sailors, and marines are inspired by the gallant struggle of their comrades in the Philippines. The workmen in our shipyards and munitions plants redouble their efforts because of your example. You and your devoted followers have become the living symbols of our war aims and the guarantee of victory.
Página 357 - I therefore give you this most difficult mission in full understanding of the desperate situation to which you may shortly be reduced. The service that you and the American members of your command can render to your country in the titanic struggle now developing is beyond all possibility of appraisement.
Página 357 - American forces will continue to keep our flag flying in the Philippines so long as there remains any possibility of resistance. I have made these decisions in complete understanding of your military estimate that accompanied President Quezon's message to me. The duty and the necessity of resisting Japanese aggression to the last transcends in importance any other obligation now facing us in the Philippines.
Página 46 - Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, vol.
Página 31 - Henry L. Stimson and McGeorge Bundy, On Active Service in Peace and War (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1948); while the strongly anti-Stimson view taken by Richard N.
Página 71 - Japanese future action unpredictable but hostile action possible at any moment. If hostilities cannot, repeat cannot, be avoided the United States desires that Japan commit the first overt act.