Fall of the Philippines

Marines teach Filipino aviation cadets the fundamentals of a water-cooled .30-caliber Browning machine gun

A Marine platoon sergeant of the 4th Marines instructs Filipino cadets in the use of the Lewis machine gun

Philippine Scouts at Fort McKinley firing a 37-mm. antitank gun in training, above; below, engineers preparing sections for a pontoon bridge

On 26 December, Manila was declared an open city

Japanese light tanks moving toward Manila on the day the city was entered.

A platoon of Company H, 2d Battalion, 4th Marines, commanded by 2dLt Michael E. Peschek, moves ammunition and weapons to Longoskawayan Point to support the attack there in January 1942

American and Filipino troops surrender to the Japanese at Bataan

Japanese troops celebrate the conquest of Bataan, Philippines, 1942. Captured Japanese photograph

The entrance to Naval Base Mariveles after the fall of Bataan

The Tribune headline on April 24, 1942 telling of the fall of Bataan

The March of Death. Along the March [on which] these prisoners were photographed, they have their hands tied behind their backs. The March of Death was about May 1942, from Bataan to Cabanatuan, the prison camp.

This picture, captured from the Japanese, shows American prisoners using improvised litters to carry those of their comrades who, from the lack of food or water on the march from Bataan, fell along the road. Philippines, May 1942

Dead soldiers

Resting

Resting

Resting

Surrender of American troops at Corregidor, Philippine Islands, May 1942

Anti-japanese propaganda

A propaganda poster depicts the Philippine resistance movement during the first year of Japanese occupation.

Japanese landings in Luzon during the Philippines Campaign

Map of Luzon, Philippines showing Japanese landings and advances from 8 December 1941 to 8 January 1942.

Japanese Operations on Luzon, December 1941

Lingayen Gulf landings and Japanese advance, 22-24 December 1941

Japanese landings in Mindanao and Jólo during the Philippines Campaign.

Situation on Bataan, 8 January 1942

The Orion-Bagac line at Bataan, Philippines, showing the U.S. positions around 27 January 1942

Japanese advance in Bataan, 7–9 April, 1942

The Abucay Line during the Battle of Bataan, 9-23 January 1942.

The Mauban Line at Bataan, Philippines, showing the U.S. positions 18-25 January 1942

Map of Corregidor Island in 1941