16 February 1945 A.D. BATAAN, PHILIPPINES: Recaptured by GEN MacArthur and 8th Army
16 February 1945 A.D. BATAAN, PHILIPPINES: Recaptured by GEN MacArthur and 8 th Army Editors. “Bataan recaptured.” History.com. N.d. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bataan-recaptured . Accessed 14 Feb 2015. Bataan recaptured On this day, the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines is occupied by American troops, almost three years after the devastating and infamous Bataan Death March. On April 3, 1942, the Japanese infantry staged a major offensive against Allied troops in Bataan, the peninsula guarding Manila Bay of the Philippine Islands. The invasion of the Japanese 14th Army, led by Gen. Masaharu Homma, had already forced Gen. Douglas MacArthur 's troops from Manila, the Philippine capital, into Bataan. By March, after MacArthur had left for Australia on President Roosevelt's orders and was replaced by Maj. Gen. Edward P. King Jr., the American Luzon Force and its Filipino allies were half-starved and suffering from malnutrition, malaria, b...