Military headquarters were removed to the island of Corregidor ... General MacArthur is ordered to leave the Philippines. April 9: U.S. surrenders Luzon. Bataan death march: the Japanese march ...
WASHINGTON — Seventy-five years ago, US forces began the invasion of Luzon, the largest and most populous island in the Philippines, thereby fulfilling Army Gen. Douglas MacArthur's 1942 pledge ...
the Republic of the Philippines consists of around 7,640 islands — about 2,000 of which are inhabited — that form an archipelago. The country can be divided into three main areas: Luzon (the ...