American forces surrender on Bataan
9th April 1942: The long fighting retreat on Luzon in the Philippines ends with the largest American surrender since the Civil War
On the 9th April the American and Philippine forces that had resisted the Japanese for so long on the Bataan peninsula were forced to surrender. Around 75,000 American and Filipino troops had retreated down a series of defensive lines in the hope t…
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