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World War II began for the United States with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, followed by the invasion of the Philippine Islands the next day. Unlike the rapid capture of Hong Kong, Wake Island and Singapore, the war in the Philippines lasted for seven months before the unprepared American and Filipino forces--cut off from supplies and fighting with obsolete equipment and without air or naval support--were overwhelmed.
Drawing on diaries and personal accounts, this book chronicles forgotten actions in the fall of the Philippines through the recollections of American servicemen. The author covers the 90 day perseverance of Bataan's tiny air force, the first PT boat raid of the war, the last U.S. horse cavalry charge in history, a lone U.S. submarine's attack on a Japanese invasion fleet, the deliberate bombing of Bataan's main field hospital by the Japanese, the difficult and uneasy surrender of Bataan, Corregidor's doomed resistance and the surrender of the Southern Islands of the archipelago.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1. "Never even got into the air" 3
2. The Philippines, December 10, 1941: "Where are our fighters?" 14
3. Moon Under Lingayen 30
4. When America Needed Heroes: Wheless and Wagner, December 10-16 38
5. The USS Canopus 48
6. A Scary Christmas But a Happy New Year: The Philippines, December 1941 58
7. The Last and the First: Bataan, January 18, 1942 65
8. The First Battle for Bataan: January 18, 1942 75
9. "Think what we could have done with sixty!" 84
10. Biggest Day for the Bataan Air Force: March 3, 1942 91
11. Japanese Blitzkrieg: April 3, 1942 98
12. The Deliberate Bombing of Bataan Hospital No. 1 107
13. The Fighting General of Bataan 119
14. Honorable But Not Easy: The Surrender of Bataan 133
15. "P-40 Something": The Last of the Tomahawks 146
16. Corregidor Fights Back: May 6, 1942 154
17. "You will, repeat, will surrender" 191
Chapter Notes 203
Bibliography 207
Index 209
