![]() Japanese planners expected that MacArthur would make his stand around Manila, the Philippine capital, and once that battle was won the rest of the islands could be occupied at leisure. The Japanese were confident of victory, and gave Homma just 50 days to capture the Philippines before his troops would be transferred elsewhere only the British bastion at Singapore was expected to hold out longer. The 1941–1942 Philippine Campaign was fought between the Japanese 14th Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma, and General Douglas MacArthur’s U.S. In the end, the Japanese succeeded in forcing the largest capitulation in U.S. Despite dwindling supplies and dim prospects for outside help, the garrison held on as long as possible and seriously delayed the Japanese timetable for conquest in the Pacific. Much of the campaign (8 December 1941–) was waged on both the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island in the mouth of Manila Bay. and Filipino (Filamerican) army fought desperately to defend Manila Bay and the Philippines against a Japanese invasion. ![]() ![]() Three-quarters of a century ago, in the opening days of the Second World War in the Pacific, a joint U.S. ![]()
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