"1942 - "At Balanga...in the midst of ruins we wash rice, put our mess kits on the fire, and wait for the time to put shoyu sauce and sugar in the pot." (GASEI)"

"1942 - A Japanese field kitchen during the Bataan campaign. (GASEI)"

"1942 - A Japanese soldier feeds horses at Bataan. (GASEI)"

"1942 - A Japanese soldier stands guard at the entrance of a building in Manila. (GASEI)"

"1942 - Announcing the fall of Corregidor in Manila. (GASEI)"

"1942 - Japanese troops advance toward Bataan. (GASEI)"

"Abandoned enemy weapons." (GASEI) Note: Japanese soldiers examine captured American weapons, ammo, and field gear.

"Bataan Death March: U.S. servicemen carry two of their dead to bury at Camp O'Donnell. (U.S. Air Force photo)"

"Japanese soldiers take down the American Flag at the Old Spanish Flagpole in Corregidor Island"

"May 15, 1942 - Japanese troops salute during memorial services (in Manila) for their comrades who died in the Philippine campaign. (GASEI)"

"May 18, 1942 - General Masaharu Homma reviewing his troops during the Japanese victory parade held in Manila. (GASEI)"

"Photograph of American prisoners using improvised litters to carry comrades" (NARA)

"Prisoners of war on the Bataan Death March. (U.S. Air Force photo)"

"Surrender of American troops at Corregidor"

"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." (NARA)

"Victorious Japanese troops atop the Hearn Battery, May 6, 1942."

12-inch mortars on Corregidor.

1942 - "Grammar schools reopened." (GASEI) Note: Under a new flag with Nihongo in the curriculum.

1942 - "Japanese soldiers guard American and Filipino prisoners of war after the conclusion of the Battle of Bataan."

1942 - "The battlefields of Bataan are subjected to a blistering heat and are shrouded in gossamer. Under these conditions preparations are being made for a general attack." (GASEI)

1942 - A Japanese soldier poses with captured ammunition at Corregidor. (GASEI)

1942 - Japanese troops hauling equipment through the jungle. (GASEI)

Bataan Death March

Battle of Bataan, January-April 1942; Office of War Information Photograph

CAMOUFLAGED 155-MM. GUN M1918 (GPF) parked on the Gerona-Tarlac road, December 1941.

CAPTURED AMERICAN AND FILIPINO TROOPS after the surrender on Corregidor. The 11,500 surviving troops on Corregidor became prisoners of war and on 28 May 1942 were evacuated to a prison stockade in Manila.

CAVITE NAVY YARD, Luzon, during a Japanese aerial attack. Early on the morning of 8 December 1941 the Japanese struck the Philippine Islands.

COASTAL DEFENSE GUN on Corregidor.

ENGINEER TROOPS stand ready to place sections of a ponton bridge in position during a river-crossing maneuver in the Philippines, 1941.

FILIPINO TROOPS training with a 37-mm. antitank gun M3.

FILIPINO TROOPS training with a 37-mm. antitank gun M3.

GUN CREW WITH A 3-INCH ANTIAIRCRAFT GUN M2.

JAPANESE ADVANCING during the drive on Manila. The medium tank is a Type 94 (1934), with a 57-mm. gun with a free traverse of 20 degrees right and left. It had a speed of 18 to 20 miles an hour, was manned by a crew of 4, and weighed 15 tons.

JAPANESE PRISONERS, captured on Bataan, being led blindfolded to headquarters for questioning.

JAPANESE SOLDIERS FIRING A MACHINE GUN Type 92 (1932) 7.7-mm. heavy machine gun, gas-operated and air-cooled. This was the standard Japanese heavy machine gun.

JAPANESE TROOPS ON BATAAN during the spring of 1942.

Japanese firing a 75-mm. gun Type 41 (1908), normally found in an infantry regimental cannon company

MEDIUM BOMBERS, B 18'S of the U.S. Far East Army Air Force attack infantry troops during 1941 maneuvers in the Philippines.

MORTAR SQUAD ASSEMBLING AN 81-MM. MORTAR M1 during training in the Philippine Islands in 1941.

May 25, 1942 - "American and Filipino prisoners, captured at Corregidor, arrive at Bilibid Prison by foot and truck as Japanese look on. They were taken by boat to Cavite." (NARA)

Members of an antitank company in position on Bataan.

New recruits are given instruction in use of the Browning .30-caliber machine gun M1917A1.

Pursuit planes, P 36's of the U.S. Far East Army Air Force attack infantry troops during 1941 maneuvers in the Philippines.

RESIDENTS OF CAVITE evacuating the city after the Japanese bombing raid of 10 December.

SOLDIERS IN MALINTA TUNNEL on Corregidor, April 1942.

Second to right is Captain Jesus A. Villamor, first Filipino to receive the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism. The Distinguished Service Cross is the U.S. Army’s version of the Navy Cross. Villamor received the award for his actions in December 1941.

TROOPS CROSSING the newly constructed ponton bridge.

U.S. PRISONERS ON BATAAN sorting equipment while Japanese guards look on. Following this, the Americans and Filipinos started on the Death March to Camp O’Donnell in central Luzon.