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Philippines in World War II

  • Battle of LuzonThe Philippines held a strategic value that threatened the United States when Japan captured it in 1942. General Douglas MacArthur oversaw the defense of the…
  • Japanese occupation of the PhilippinesJapan invaded the Philippines on the 8th of December 1941. This attack occurred just ten hours after the strike on Pearl Harbor.
  • Bataan Death MarchOn the morning of the 22nd of December 1941, the main force of General Masaharu Homma's 14th Army came ashore at Lingayen Gulf.
  • Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity SphereIn the autumn of 1872, United States minister to Japan Charles DeLong explained to U.S. General Charles LeGendre that he had been urging the Government of…