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A battle captured 75 000 Allied soldiers The Battle of Bataan considered America's greatest defeat Within three short months over 15 000 American soldiers and 60 000 non- combatants were taken prisoner Even General MacArthur was almost captured Let's take a look at what exactly happened in this battle The time came on December 7 1941 when Japanese carrier-based aircraft attacked the U S Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and at almost the same time on the other hand To control the entire Southwest Pacific region Japanese land-based aircraft based in Taiwan continuously bombed the Philippine Islands The U S Army Air Forces Far East Air Force had three airbases in the Philippines namely the Clark Air Base in Pampanga The Elmbe Air Base in the San Miguel province The Nichols Air Base near Manila and the headquarters of the U S Seventh Fleet in Camarines Norte Faced with the sudden attack by the Japanese forces the unprepared U S Navy and Air Force units were unable to stop the Japanese from landing on the Bataan Islands from December 8th to 10th The amphibious landing at Aparri and Vigan Although in the last joint attack operation of the Far East Air Force U S aircraft damaged two Japanese transport ships The flagship of the Combined Fleet the Yamato was attacked by a destroyer and a mine layer but these air attacks and naval operations were unable to effectively stop the Japanese offensive But the Japanese military's then sporadic landing operations were actually mainly aimed at covering the Japanese 14th Army commanded by Lieutenant General Honda Masakazu On December 22 1941 the attack on Lingayen Gulf and La Moneda Bay in Manila Bay captured the attention of the American forces On the 22nd the Japanese forces destroyed most of the American air and naval forces at these two locations gaining a significant advantage At this time the US and Filipino forces could not withstand the fierce Japanese attack As the commander -in-chief at the time General MacArthur had neither air force nor navy at his disposal Forced to do so Only the scheduled plan can be initiated After securing the beachhead the Japanese immediately launched a large-scale advance and the three non- military infantry divisions defending the area were repelled by the Japanese facing such a difficult situation General MacArthur realized that the plan for the beach defense had failed On December 26th he informed the front-line commanders to formally implement the Orange Three War Plan This was the previously planned defensive strategy using a delaying action to hold the Bataan Peninsula The action plan for Corregidor Island According to the Orange Plan the forces will withdraw to the Bataan Peninsula There they will reorganize with the garrison and hold out for six months The essence of the Orange Plan was to delay the Japanese invasion until the U S Pacific Fleet could fully assemble and open the route to the Philippines The defense of the Bataan Peninsula was advantageous due to the terrain and the garrison defending the port facilities in Manila Bay The garrison at the nearby Cressy Island fortress was under artillery support The garrison was expected to hold out until reinforcements arrived At this point the US Navy had estimated it would take two years To conduct the campaign across the Pacific but if the Pacific Fleet is destroyed in Pearl Harbor there will be no reinforcements arriving Meanwhile Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon They and their families and government officials on the night of December 24 1941 and MacArthur The U S Far East Command also withdrew to Corregidor Island All other U S Far East military personnel were also evacuated from the main city area On the same day Manila was declared a demilitarized city On January 2 1942 the Japanese occupied Manila The battle has entered its next phase In fact General MacArthur's original plan was for the troops and supplies to completely withdraw to the designated defensive line He commanded the North Group of forces under the command of Jonathan Wainwright IV to block the main Japanese attack and ensure The South Brigade commanded by General George B MacArthur sent troops to the road to the Bataan Peninsula which at the time was recovering from a very chaotic situation To achieve this goal Wright according to the Orange Plan No 3 assigned the troops to five lines of defense namely the first Aguilar to San Carlos to Utanita Second Anog River Third San Ignacio through Girona through Zambe to San River East Fourth Dara to Mawana Rye Fifth Bambang to San Miguel Immediately from January 1st to 5th 1942 As the entire U S Far East Army withdrew from both north and south a series of delaying actions were carried out as they retreated into the Bataan Peninsula the bloodiest fighting occurred at Balacatan The Philippine 11th and 21st Divisions commanded by Colonel William Ploof and Major General MacArthur erupted along the Bataan front The 26th Cavalry Brigade led by Colonel Clinton Pierce was defending it However the area was open and lacked defensive positions The defenders had to face the Japanese army's fierce air raids and artillery bombardment as well as powerful tank attacks plus repeated assaults by the two infantry detachments of Takahashi and Tanaka Both sides paid a heavy price Additionally the Orange Three Plan also required the deployment of two lines of defense on the Bataan Peninsula The first line runs from Bombon in the west to Abu Khan in the east General Wright commanded the newly formed First Army of the Philippines consisting of 22 500 men to defend the west The force includes the 1st 31st and 91st Infantry Divisions of the Philippines the 26th Cavalry Regiment one battery of artillery and self-propelled artillery General Bakal is the commander of the new Philippine Second Army which includes the Philippine 11th 21st 41st and 51st Infantry Divisions The 57th Infantry Regiment of 25 000 men defended the east all divisions had suffered heavy casualties in previous battles especially during the retreat The US Army Philippine Division included the US Army 31st and 45th Infantry Regiments as well as other support units became the reserve force defending the Bataan Peninsula as Mount Nadiab A 1287-meter-high mountain served as a boundary thereby separating the peninsula becoming the frontline between the two armies two commanders established defensive lines on the mountain but due to the terrain They did not extend the line to the hillside therefore there was no direct point of contact between the two armies after the retreat was completed the Abukaymubang line It became the main defensive stronghold of the US Far East Command The time came to January 9 1942 Under the command of Mori Gōshin the Japanese forces began attacking the eastern wing of the Abucay-Hacienda defense line The 57th Infantry Regiment led by General Ludwigs Steffen and General George Ziller held the position Large-scale combat erupted on January 12 The Japanese attack on January 14th was followed by attacks led by Lieutenant Vincent Ling and Lieutenant Arpo The front lines of the 41st and 51st Infantry Divisions supported by the 43rd and 23rd Infantry Divisions They repelled the Japanese attack on their left wing but the Japanese still entered the Saray Valley through the gap left by the withdrawal of the 51st Infantry Division But due to a Philippine unit discovering the infiltration and the 21st Philippine Infantry Division entering the valley to block the retreat Meanwhile far to the west of the line a Japanese force suddenly broke through the Philippine 53rd Infantry Division commanded by John Bowers It immediately crossed the Abukai Mbon line along the Apu River But their attack was halted by the combined forces of the Philippine 21st 31st 51st and 92nd Infantry Divisions The 31st and 45th Infantry Divisions recaptured the line that the 51st Infantry Division had abandoned On January 15 the Philippine 1st Infantry Division reinforced held the line in the Vientiane area under intense Japanese bombing Japanese air raids in the area east of Nadi Bu and the roadblock in the Moba mountain region threatened the city's flanks The 71st 91st and 92nd Infantry Divisions of the Philippines were unable to repel the Japanese forces despite repeated attacks Japanese forces frequently conducted night raids and infiltration tactics Although the Second Army of the Hundred Generals had already prevented a similar encirclement in the Saray River battle But General Wainwright's First Army remained in grave danger Finally the Abu Ghraib and Mombasa lines were abandoned on January 22 The Polish defenses were established in the next four days When the Japanese attacked again The defenders had already been bombed by the First Army of the Philippines They had retreated to a new defensive line At this time General Brimwell was positioning along the second line of defense During this time the 32nd 41st and 51st Infantry Divisions arrived as reinforcements To prevent the Japanese military's advance and plug the gap The remaining Japanese forces were behind the 11th Division on the Bobo River and behind the 1st Division on the Kukelt River The troops passed through the side areas of the Abukai and Mobang defense lines From January 23 to February 17 1942 the garrison took joint action To ease the resistance in these prominent areas known as pocket battles the fighting was very intense when the Japanese tried to encircle the defending troops Colonel Alfredo Sandoval's 1st Division defeated the Japanese in several attempts with more skillful and clever strategies They successfully broke through the Gorkhali and Bhopal pockets Therefore he was called the hero of the pocket Immediately after Santos was given a terrible task: to block the breach Routed the invading forces and severely threatened the Japanese army's position After receiving the order Colonel Sundt disregarded his own safety and led his troops Launch a counterattack against a Japanese force much stronger in strength and numbers between the area and the reserve line of the unit The battle began at sunset on January 29 1942 The time came to February 8 1942 This day Ma Yaqin ordered the Japanese army to stop the attack to reorganize the troops However this could not be implemented immediately because the 16th Division still had to support the 3rd Battalion of the 20th Infantry Regiment Under greater casualties the 378 officers and soldiers of the Third Battalion were rescued on February 15th On February 22 the Japanese 14th Army withdrew several kilometers northward The US Far East Command reoccupied some areas that had been captured by the Japanese forces The time was the evening of March 12 1942 General MacArthur and his family along with several U S Far East Army officers left Corregidor Island Boarded four PT-34 torpedo boats commanded by Lieutenant John B Curry to Mindanao finally arriving in Australia The departure of MacArthur marked the end of the US Far East Command on March 22 1942 the First Army was renamed the US Army Forces in the Philippines under Jonathan General Wright IV commanded Meanwhile on the other hand After the first attack on the Bataan Peninsula failed The Japanese army headquarters immediately dispatched artillery units to attack the American front line There were a total of 190 cannons including 150mm howitzers and rare ones 240-millimeter howitzer This type of cannon was only involved in the Battle of Bataan the first artillery headquarters that became famous in the Japanese army Under the command of Kishiko Kishima they were also moved to the Philippines and commanded these artillery units along with the attacking forces In addition the Japanese headquarters ordered Honda to end the battle by the end of March Therefore the Japanese forces prepared for a final large -scale attack from 9 a m to 3 p on April 3rd The entire Abukai-Mombong line was subjected to a fierce attack by 100 Japanese aircraft and 300 artillery pieces The defensive line at Mount Samat suddenly turned into hell For the next three days The vanguard of the Japanese 65th Independent Mixed Brigade and the 4th Division The full-scale attack on the left wing of the Philippine Second Army began to collapse In addition based on previous attack experiences Honda Masakatsu had already anticipated that the final major assault would take about a week Only talent could break through the Abukaimo defense line and it would also take a month to clear out the remaining enemy forces Three days after the attack began He ordered the troops to reach the front line of the planned counterattack on April 6th The Japanese attack focused on the central route They broke through the 21st Philippine Division The 22nd and 23rd Regiments flanked and surrounded the entire Philippine Second Army at Mount Samat The counterattacks launched by the US and Filipino forces during this period did not achieve any results Only the 57th Infantry Regiment made some progress As the entire front line erupted into full-scale combat The first and second armies of the Philippines collapsed The commanders of Bataan could only communicate with a few of the units and had completely lost contact with the rest of their forces The entire Allied line was nearly broken All roads were clogged with refugees and retreating troops April 8 1942 General Edward King the senior US military commander on the Bataan Peninsula saw that further resistance by the garrison was futile and proposed the terms of the surrender agreement April 9 1942 the next morning General Kim and the Japanese spent several hours negotiating The exhausted defenders on Bataan Peninsula surrendered to the Japanese Over 60 000 Filipinos and 15 000 American soldiers were forced on the famous Bataan Death March marking the end of the Bataan Peninsula campaign In summary The surrender of US and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula led to the fall of Corregidor one month later It was only because of this three-month delay that the Japanese were unable to quickly capture all American bases in the Pacific the Battle of Bataan severely slowed the Japanese advance The Allied forces gained valuable time to prepare for subsequent battles such as the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway What do you all have to say about this battle Welcome to leave comments in the comment section for discussion If there are any errors in the video Welcome everyone to point out the mistakes in the comment section If you like the video please like and follow After that the soldier will bring you more exciting videos See you next time