United States Army in World War II
The War in the Pacific
The Fall of the Philippines
Louis Morton
. . . to Those Who Served
Contents
PART TWO: The Isolation of the Philippines and the Japanese
Landings
PART THREE: The Withdrawal to Bataan
PART FOUR: The Siege of Bataan
PART FIVE: Corregidor and the Southern Islands
Tables
- Strength of Philippine
Division,
31 July 1941
- Strength and Composition of
U.S. Army Troops in the Philippine Islands,
31 July 1941
- Aircraft in the Philippines
and Hawaii, 1 December 1941
- Strength and Composition of
U.S. Army Troops in Philippine Islands, 30
November 1941
- Organization and Disposition
of Japanese Army, 1 December 1941
- Assignment of Forces, USAFFE,
3 December 1941
- Weapons and Equipment
Captured by 14th Army, 20 February 1942
- Rations, 25 March 1942
- Armament on Corregidor
- Armament on Forts Hughes,
Drum, and Frank
- Strength, Harbor and Beach
Defenses, April 1942
Maps
- Japanese Plan and Disposition
of
the Armies, November 1941
- Disposition of U.S. Army Forces,
Far East, 8 December 1941
- Advance Japanese Landings, 8-20
December 1941
- Lingayen Gulf Landings, 22-24
December 1941
- Lamon Bay Landings, 24 December
1941
- Withdrawal in the North, 25-31
December 1941
- Withdrawal in the South, 25-31
December 1941
- Holding the Road to Bataan, 31
December 1941-1 January 1942
- Through Layac Junction, 2-6
January 1942
- Situation on Bataan, 8 January
1942
- The Abucay Line, 9-23 January
1942
- The Mauban Line, 18-25 January
1942
- Japanese Landings on Bataan, 23
January-1 February 1942
- Longoskawayan Point Area
- Quinauan Point Area
- Anyasan and Silaiim Points Area
- The Orion-Bagac Line
- Fight for Trail 2, 27 January-2
February 1942
- The Pockets
- Japanese Plan of Attack, 3 April
1942
- Japanese Penetration, 3-6 April
1942
- Japanese Advance, 7-9 April 1942
- Corregidor Island
- The Fight for Mindanao, 29
April-9 May 1942
- Japanese Landings on Corregidor,
5-6 May 1942
Illustrations
- The Philippine Islands
- Signing the Constitution of the
Philippine Commonwealth
- Manila Harbor
- Philippine Scouts (37-mm. antitank
gun)
- Philippine Scouts (pontoon bridge)
- Ceremony at Camp Murphy, Rizal
- Aircraft in the Philippines,
December 1941: Douglas B-18A
- Aircraft in the Philippines,
December 1941: Martin B-10B
- Aircraft in the Philippines,
December 1941: Republic P-35
- Aircraft in the Philippines,
December 1941: Boing B-17D
- Aircraft in the Philippines,
December 1941: Curtiss P-40E
- Aircraft in the Philippines,
December 1941: Boing P-26A
- Clark Field
- General MacArthur
- Japanese Air Attack on 10
December 1941 (Nichols Fields)
- Japanese Air Attack (Cavite Navy
Yard)
- Luzon
- 155-mm. Gun Emplacement Near
Dagupan
- 26th Cavalry (PS) Moving into
Pozorrubio
- Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma, 14th
Army Commander
- Villasis-Carmen Bridge
- Agno River
- Tarlac Railroad Station
- Salvaging .30 Caliber Ammunition
- Bicycle-Mounted Japanese Troops
- Motorcycle Messenger Catnapping
- Camouflaged 155-mm. Gun M1917
(GPF)
- Mount Arayat
- Calumpit Bridges
- San Fernando
- The Open City
- Japanese Light Tanks
- Fortifications on Bataan (tank
obstacles and fence)
- Fortifications on Bataan
(roadblock)
- Bridges on Bataan (wooden bridge
ready for burning)
- Bridges on Bataan (remains of
steel bridge)
- Bridges on Bataan (foundations
for temporary bridge)
- Inspection
- Brig. Gen. Maxon S. Lough
- USAFFE Huadquarters on Bataan,
February 1942
- Standing Formation
- Medical Care on Bataan
- Medical Care on Bataan
- Japanese Propaganda Leaflets
- Japanese Propaganda Leaflets
- "Voice of Freedom"
- Seeking Cover in a Trench Near
Lamao
- Surrender on Bataan
- Surrender on Bataan
- Discussing Surrender Terms
- Corregidor
- Malinta Hill
- Diagram of Malinta Tunnel
- Fort Drum
- Fort Drum
- Gun Emplacements on Corregidor
- Gun Emplacements on Corregidor
- USAFFE Headquarters in Malinta
Tunnel
- Maj. Gen. William F. Sharp and
His Staff
- Cebu
- Heavy Clouds Over Corregidor
- Marine Sergeant Teaching Filipinos
- Life in Malinta Tunnel
- Life in Malinta Tunnel
- Battery Crockett
- Battery Way
- Japanese Bombers Over Corregidor
- Searchlights on Corregidor
- The Meeting of Wainwright and
Homma
- General Wainwright Broadcasting
- American Generals in Captivity
Photographs are from the Department of Defense files,
except for that on page 533, the Japanese photographs on pages 143,
233, 465, 539, 548, 568 and 573, and the photograph on page 583,
reproduced through the courtesy of Col. William C. Braly.
Abbreviations * Military Map Symbols
Transcribed and formatted for HTML by Patrick Clancey,
HyperWar Foundation