U.S. forces continue the bitter fight for Bataan

11th March 1942: The gradual retreat down the Bataan Peninsula continues as General MacArthur leaves the Philippines

An American soldier stands in his foxhole on Bataan peninsula, waiting to hurl a flaming bottle bomb at a Japanese tank.

In the Philippines the pre war plan in the event of an invasion had been to retreat to the Bataan peninsula of Luzon and hold out until a relief force arrived. The U.S. and Philippine troops who did move to the peninsula had been on h…