See a brief timeline of the American experience during World War II in the Philippines below. Early January: The Japanese occupy Manila. U.S. forces retreat south into the Bataan peninsula.

And, this Bataan ... the Philippines. While the Japanese pounded Corregidor (which would surrender on May 6), they led their prisoners on a forced march out of Bataan. Before the "Death March ...

Thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops were killed after being forced into a perilous march through the jungles of Philippines as prisoners of war during World War II. Many of them were New ...