Historical Battle of Bataan

 Ang Araw  ng Kagitingan o kilala rin bilang Araw ng Kagitingan o Araw ng Bataan at Corregidor, ay isang pagtalima sa Pilipinas kung saan ginugunita ang pagbagsak ng Bataan noong ika-9 ng Abril 1942 sa kasagsagan ng ikalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig.


On April 9, 1942, officials in command of Bataan where Filipino and American forces maintained the main resistance in the war against the Japanese formally surrendered. Through the Voice of Freedom radio broadcast, Third Lieutenant Normando Ildefonso Reyes reading a message prepared by Captain Salvador P. Lopez informed the Philippines and the world from Malinta Tunnel in Corregidor: “Bataan has Fallen”


“Bataan has fallen. The Philippine-American troops on this war-ravaged and bloodstained peninsula have laid down their arms. With heads bloody but unbowed, they have yielded to the superior force and numbers of the enemy.”


The siege and defense of Bataan lasted 93 days or just four months after the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE: later renamed USFIP) retreated to Bataan.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bataan





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