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    Philippines

    Firing the First Shot – World War II

    December 5, 2018 by denisefrisino 2 Comments

    “We must somehow maneuver them into firing the first shot.” President Roosevelt declared prior to the outbreak of World War II.

    The “them” he referred to—none other than a vital part of the Axis seeking control of the Pacific–The Japanese.
    Crippled by the isolationist American public and Congress, who refused to enter another war, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces straddled the fine line of support for the British, Canadians, Dutch, known as the ABCD, and his duty to his public.

    The Japanese must fire the first shot!

    Without a doubt, this aggressive action would anger our sleeping country and insight Congress to declare war. But how to accomplish this task without the U.S. firing first? [Read more…] about Firing the First Shot – World War II

    Filed Under: Armed Forces, Pacific Theatre, Pearl Harbor, World War II Tagged With: 1941, A day that will live in infamy, ABCD, Argentina Conference, British, Canadians, Dorothy Lamour, Dutch, East-Wind-Rain, firing the first shot, General MacArthur, General Walter Short, Hurricane, Isolationist, Japanese, Kemp Tolley, Land of the Rising Sun, Lend-Lease Act, Manila, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, USS Isabel, USS Lanikai, war de facto, World War II, WWII

    The Bataan Death March

    April 5, 2018 by denisefrisino 1 Comment

    Having fought gallantly for four months, weak, starving, sick, exposed to the burning heat of the Philippines, roughly 60,000 Filipino troops and 11,000 – 15,000 men from the United States surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942 on the peninsula of Bataan. A fate that would claim 5,000-10,000 Filipino soldiers and about 650 American lives along the march. The numbers vary due to the inability to get an accurate count of how many actually were captured at the largest surrender of American forces since the Civil War, coupled with those soldiers who were able to escape. While the numbers might differ, the manner in which the brutal slaughter of Prisoners of War occurred is documented and rememApril 9, 1942of the worst, most egregious, displays of inhumanity in the Pacific Theater during WWII.

    Bataan Park, Bremerton WA

    Araw ng Kagitingan, Day of Valor, is currently celebrated with prayers and laying of wreaths at statues and plaques across America and in the Philippines commentating the thousands of souls lost to a hostile enemy. Manila was first attacked on December 8th 1941, with the international date line that was December 7th, 1941, in U.S. time, the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor. Outnumbered, with ill preparation by General McArthur, the country of the Philippines was the last to surrender to the Japanese in Asia with the fall of Corregidor on May 6, 1942. [Read more…] about The Bataan Death March

    Filed Under: Armed Forces, Bataan Death March, Pacific Theatre, World War II Tagged With: 1941, 1942, Allied, America’s, April 9, Araw ng Kagitingan\, artillery, Asia, attack on Pearl Harbor, Australia, Bataan Death March, bayonetting’s, beheadings, burned alive, Camp O’Donnell, Colonel James W. Duckworth, Corregidor, Day of Valor, December 7th, December 8th 1941, dysentery, Emperor Hirohito, Filipino troops, General Masaharu Homma, General McArthur, Imperial Japanese, Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese, Japanese commanders, largest surrender of American forces, Life Magazine, Major William E. Dyes, Medical Corps, metal box cars, Nippon, Pacific Theater, Pantingan River, Philippines, POW’s, President Roosevelt, Prisoners of War, random beatings, San Fernando railroad, sun treatment, tanks, The Dyes Report, top secret, torture, United States surrendered, US Government, War Crimes, war with China, World War II, WWII

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