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Feb 8, 2017 · After the U.S. began to mobilize, a number of new units arrived in the Philippines in 1941, including two anti-aircraft units from the New Mexico National Guard, the 200th and 515th Coastal...
Jul 24, 2017 · More than any other Allied combat during the war’s opening months, MacArthur’s Philippines defense bought the Allies the vital time necessary to prepare and mount counteroffensives that began rolling back Japan’s conquests in mid-1942.
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Philippine Islands 7 December 1941--10 May 1942. Capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast Asia flank.
The attack on Clark Field ( Filipino: Paglusob sa Kampo ng Clark / Kapampangan: Atake king Kampo ning Clark) was part of a series of morning airstrikes on United States Pacific island military bases opening Japanese participation in World War II.
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December 8 – Start of the Japanese Invasion of the Philippines. December 20 – President Quezon, his family and the war cabinet move to Corregidor Island. December 26 – General MacArthur declares Manila an open city. December 28 – Filipino and US armies retreat to Bataan.
Jul 8, 2019 · Attack on the Philippines, 8 December 1941 On 8 December 1941, as prelude to multiple amphibious landings in the Philippines, the Japanese launched air attacks on U.S. and Filipino bases....
Nov 17, 2017 · On December 8, 1941, around 3 am local time, the news reached US forces in the Philippines that Pearl Harbor was under attack. The long-awaited war with Japan had finally come. Confusion followed about what to do with American planes on the ground in the Philippines.
