War in the Pacific - Eagle Against the Sun - Season 1 Episode 9 Sho Ichigo Sakusen
0.0048 minutes
In December 1941, within hours of the destruction of the United States battle fleet at Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces began their assault on the Philippines. By April 1942, the Bataan Peninsula fell. And in May, General Wainwright and the bulk of the remaining U.S. and Filipino forces, were forced to surrender at Corregidor.