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	Battle of the Philippines (1941-42) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wainwright's forces included the PA 11th, 21st and 31st Infantry Divisions, the U.S. 26th Cavalry Regiment (a PS unit), a battalion of the 45th Infantry (PS), two batteries of 144mm guns and one of 2.95 inch mountain guns.
		A reserve force, under MacArthur's command, was composed of the Philippine Division, the Far East Air Force and headquarters units from the PA and Philippine Department, stationed just north of Manila.
		Allied forces began the campaign to recapture the Philippines in 1944, with landings on the island of Leyte.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_the_Philippines_(1941-42) (1335 words)

	Chapter IV: Prewar Plans, Japanese and American
		The air force was to move to these fields as soon as possible and continue to the destruction of the American air and naval forces from these close-in bases.
		The Legaspi Force (Forth Surprise Attack Force) was to be staged at Palau, and since it could not be supported by the planes of the 11th Air Fleet it included the South Philippines Support Force, comprising the 4th Carrier Division and 2 seaplane carriers with 20 planes each.
		This area was directly under the control of MacArthur's headquarters and contained the Philippine Division (less one battalion), the 91st Division (PA), the 86th Field Artillery (PS), the Far East Air Force, and the headquarters of the Philippine Department and the Philippine Army.
	www.ranger95.com /military_history/philippines/Chapter_IV.html (9069 words)

	Philippine Islands
		Wainwright's forces were organized around one regiment of Philippine Scouts (PS), the 26th Cavalry, one battalion of the 45th Infantry (PS), and two batteries of 144-mm.
		The Reserve Force, composed of the Far East Air Force, the U.S. Army's Philippine Division, and the headquarters units of the Philippine Department and the Philippine Army, was stationed just north of Manila under MacArthur's direct command.
		Forced to evacuate their outflanked position on the evening of 22 January, the defenders completed the task in four days.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/brochures/pi/PI.htm (6318 words)

	Philippines
		Forced labor in the informal sector, the practice of using forced underage workers in domestic servitude, and forced child prostitution were problems.
		The Higaonon people in Mindanao continue to be deprived of portions of their ancestral land by a powerful local landowning family that forced their removal through a violent demolition conducted by the PNP and private security forces in 1997.
		Forced labor is prohibited, including forced and bonded labor by children; however, despite the Government's generally effective prohibition of forced labor, there were some reports of forced or bonded labor by children, mainly in prostitution and other areas of the informal sector, as well as trafficking in women and children for forced prostitution.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eap/index.cfm?docid=764 (13606 words)

	NBX Negosyopark Business Exchange - General Information of Mindanao (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		South of the island of Luzon, north of Mindanao and east of Palawan is the Visayas.
		Visayan - Cebuano culture is laid back and easy going; the people are friendly and has preserved strong Spanish-oriented traditions in its cultural life to this very day.
		The term Visayan came from an ancient Malay kingdom, called the Sri Vishayan Empire which ruled some parts of the Philippines in the 14th century to the early years of the Spanish conquest.
	www.negosyopark.com /city/visayas.htm (1431 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration
		During the night of October 11-12, a Japanese force of 4 cruisers and 1 destroyer was intercepted and surprised by Rear Adm. Norman Scott's task force of 4 cruisers and 5 destroyers.
		On October 25, C Force entered Surigao Strait from the west and was attacked by the battleships and cruisers of Admiral Kincaid's Seventh Fleet.
		Her forces continued to struggle with the same fanatical zeal and tenacity of purpose that had characterized their fighting in the early days of the war.
	www.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_9.html (13035 words)

	Mindanao Times News 2007 - Davao City 8000, Philippines
		Eduardo del Rosario, Task Force Davao commander, denied the reported conflict between Visayan settlers and the indigenous communities in Paquibato District.
		Speaking at a press briefing at the Task Force Davao headquarters, del Rosario said that the evacuation of Visayan residents in Brgy.
		Del Rosario said the rebels resorted to disinformation about the behavior of the military and paramilitary troops in the area, and the relationship between the indigenous community and the Visayan settlers, causing for the latter to leave their homes for fear of their lives.
	www.mindanaotimes.com.ph /story.php?id=10577 (485 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Fall of the Philippines [Chapter 28]
		The creation of the Visayan Force on 4 March had brought a change in commanders and a renewed vigor to the preparations for a prolonged defense of the islands in the Visayan group.
		It was the Japanese force along the Talisay road that had scattered the Camp X outposts and forced upon Chynoweth the realization that his plans for the defenses of Cantabaco had miscarried.
		To each sector was assigned a force of appropriate size whose commander reported directly to Mindanao Force headquarters at Del Monte, ten miles inland from the northern terminus of the Sayre Highway and adjacent to the Del Monte Airfield.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/USA-P-PI-28.html (10866 words)

	Jap Plan for the Phil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His growing air force included by the end of November 1941 thirty-five B-17s and almost 100 fighters of the latest type.
		On 3 December, when Wainwright received his mission, his North Luzon Force consisted of three Philippine Army divisions--the 11th, 21st, and 31st--the 26th Cavalry (PS), one battalion of the 45th Infantry (PS) on Bataan, two batteries of 155-mm guns, and one battery of 2.95-inch mountain guns.
		[NOTE: The 1st Bn, 43d Infantry (PS) was stationed at Zamboanga, Mindanao, to guard the alternate B-17 staging field.] For the rest, the force consisted of the 61st, 81st, and 101st Division, all Philippine Army.
	c.1asphost.com /scanhead25/defense.htm (3731 words)

	RMS-GS Translations
		In their assault, American forces would neither bombard the city nor allow the insurgents to take part (the Spanish feared that the Filipinos were plotting to massacre them all).
		Immigration of Christian settlers from Luzon and the Visayan Islands to the relatively unsettled regions of Mindanao was encouraged, and the new arrivals began supplanting the Moros in their own homeland.
		Some 16,000 Japanese were concentrated largely in the Mindanao province of Davao (the incorporated city of Davao was labeled by local boosters the "Little Tokyo of the South") and were predominant in the abaca industry.
	www.rms-gs.de /phileng/history/kap02.html (6098 words)

	RMS-GS Translations
		The Spanish, tied down by fighting with the British and the rebels, were unable to control the raids of the Moros of the south on the Christian communities of the Visayan Islands and Luzon.
		The governor, however, apparently forced by reactionary elements, ordered Rizal's arrest en route, and he was sent back to Manila to be tried by a military court as an accomplice of the insurrection.
		At a convention held at Tejeros, the Katipunan's headquarters in March 1897, delegates elected Aguinaldo president and demoted Bonifacio to the post of director of the interior.
	www.rms-gs.de /phileng/history/kap01.html (6073 words)

	Decision To Withdraw to Bataan
		This area was directly under the control of MacArthur's headquarters and contained the Philippine Division (less one battalion), the 71st and 91st Divisions (PA), the 86th Field Artillery (PS), the Far East Air Force, and the headquarters of the Philippine Department and the Philippine Army.
		Should the forces in north and south Luzon fail to pull back to Bataan, or should the Japanese seize the road net leading into the peninsula, then the strategic objective of the withdrawal, the denial of Manila Bay to the enemy, would be jeopardized.
		Brereton closed his headquarters in Manila at 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th and left that evening in a PBY to join his bombers at Batchelor Field near Darwin.
	home.comcast.net /~rgrokett/POW/WPO-3.htm (7692 words)

	Scriven Diary - U.S. Military Occupation of Bohol, 1900-1902
		It was scarcely, therefore, a place to waste infantry, and the size of the force that was sent to invade it attests this.
		Garcia Hernandez was burned, Anda was burned, Inabanga was burned (and its police force was drowned) and the town of Jetafe was only spared by a fluke when two columns of troops, approaching it from different directions, turned away by mistake at about the same time, each assuming that the other'd light the match.
		The rebellion on Samar had grown fiercer and troops were being sucked from all around to strengthen the fighting force there; K replaced a unit on Cebu.
	scriptorium.lib.duke.edu /scriven/bohol-history.html (5206 words)

	HyperWar: US Army in WWII: Fall of the Philippines [Chapter 32]
		Unlike General King, who had been forced to violate his instructions and keep from his superior any knowledge of his decision to surrender the Luzon Force, Wainwright was able to make his decision unhindered by restrictions from higher headquarters.
		On Mindanao, where the Japanese had committed larger forces and scored more important gains than elsewhere in the south, General Sharp's troops had been defeated, but elements of his force were still intact and capable of continuing organized resistance.
		The surrender on Mindanao was generally without incident, although here, as elsewhere, a large number of troops preferred to leave their units rather than become prisoners.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-P-PI/USA-P-PI-32.html (11320 words)

	Part III
		The original task forces that were hurriedly sent to the South Pacific Area contained a disproportionately high percentage of combat troops who had to be utilized to effect minimum logistical support at each base.
		Shortly before Headquarters, SOSSPA, was organized in Auckland, 1st Lt. (later Lt. Col.) Joseph C. Thompson, MAC, was transferred from the 43d Infantry Division to Headquarters, USAFISPA (U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific Area), and assigned duties as the theater medical supply officer.
		At the time that the headquarters moved from Auckland to Nouméa some 45 days later, the medical supply staff in the surgeon’s office consisted of Lieutenant Thompson and one sergeant; all files of this office were carried in one briefcase.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/medicalsupply/chapter12.htm (12345 words)

	Philippines - Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Philippine army was formally organized in 1936 after the United States accorded the Philippines commonwealth status in 1935, but it traced its origins to the rebel forces established in 1896 to fight for national independence.
		Three divisions were headquartered on the northern Island of Luzon, two were based in the central Visayan Islands, and three operated on the southern island of Mindanao.
		The army's weapons were appropriate to its light infantry force structure and counterinsurgency mission (see table 19, Appendix).
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-10519.html (502 words)

	Battle of Corregidor
		The American-Filipino military force under the command of General Douglas MacArthur was forced onto the Bataan peninsula, where they carried out a delaying action.
		Wainwright was the commander of the Filipino-American forces on the Island of Luzon, the island of Manilla and Manilla Bay.
		The capitulation on Bataan on April 9 resulted in the seizure of thousands of Americans and Filipinos who would be forced to begin the infamous Bataan Death March, to the hellhole called Camp O'Donnell.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1743.html (1333 words)

	Blitzkrieg @ GamersInfo.net
		The Garrison had been augmented by 8,500 personnel from National Guard units on the US mainland, including the only armoured forces present, two Tank battalions.
		A reserve force, under MacArthur's direct command, was composed of the Philippine Division, the Far East Air Force, and headquarters units from the PA and Philippine Department, stationed just north of Manila.
		On 23 December, MacArthur notified his field commanders that he was reactivating an old prewar plan to defend only Bataan and Corregidor; both the military headquarters and the Philippines government were moved to Corregidor.
	blitzkrieg.gamersinfo.net /glossary/?id=21 (1197 words)

	Imperial Battleships
		Force A exits the strait and proceeds eastward.
		Force A is attacked by about 30 Grumman TBM Avengers from the USS WASP (CV-19) and USS COWPENS (CVL-25).
		0200: The Attack Force, zigzagging at 22 knots on a southerly course, passes the Miyazaki coast and reaches the entrance to Osumi Kaikyo Channel.
	www.combinedfleet.com /yamato.htm (6790 words)

	KA POPOY'S SELECTED WRITINGS
		Everybody knows that the best way is to use a large force to defeat a small one, and yet many people fail to do so and on the contrary often divide their forces up.
		The main requirements are: adequate preparations, seizing the opportune moment, concentration of superior forces, encircling and outflanking tactics, favorable terrain, and striking at the enemy when he is on the move, or when his is stationary but has not yet consolidated his positions.
		A regular Red Army operating by concentrating its forces, engaging in regular mobile operation as its main form of warfare, and accumulating strength by campaigns and battles of quick decision-this is Mao's protracted war theory.
	www.marxists.org /archive/lagman/works/ppw.htm (18529 words)

	Sources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		USAFFE GO 4, 4 Aug 41, copy in History of Fifth Air Force (and Its Predecessors), Air Hist Off; Army Air Action in the Philippines and the Netherland East Indies, p.
		This last report with its eighteen annexes constitutes the basic Army report on the various aspects of the Philippine campaign and was prepared in 1946 by a staff under General Wainwright, formerly commander of USFIP.
		Each of the annexes is separately titled and paginated and was prepared by officers in the relevant headquarters.
	c.1asphost.com /scanhead25/sources.htm (810 words)

	ENSIGN PRESS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The idea was to send medium and heavy bombers from Australia to Mindanao from where strikes against the Japanese naval presence in the Visayan Islands and at Subic Bay would be conducted.
		In advance of the arrival of the bombers, ships at Cebu City and at Iloilo on Panay were to be loaded with supplies and made ready to leave for Bataan/ Corregidor as soon as the bombers neutralized the enemy's ability to block their passage.
		Three P-40 fighter planes, then in the process of being assembled on Mindanao, were to provide the further insurance of air cover for the ships while en route.
	www.ensignpress.com /oversea1.htm (1557 words)

	Print General Wainwright Surrender May 6, 1942
		General Homma, the Commander-In-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Forces in the Philippines, the surrender of the four harbor Forts of Manila Bay.
		It became apparent that the garrisons of these forts would be eventually destroyed by aerial and artillery bombardment and by infantry supported by tanks, which have overwhelmed Correigidor.
		After leaving General Homma with no agreement between us I decided to accept in the name of humanity his proposal and tendered at midnight, night of 6-7 May, 1942, to senior Japaese Officer on Correigidor, the formal surrender of all American and Philippine Army troops in the Philippines.
	www.oryokumaruonline.org /printradiogram.html (321 words)

	Imperial Battleships
		Acting on "Ultra" codebreaker's deciphers and authorized by President Roosevelt, 18 Army Air Force P-38s take off from Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, intercept and kill Admiral Yamamoto over Bougainville while his Mitsubishi GM4 "Betty" bomber is enroute from Rabaul to the IJN air base on Ballale.
		The fleet sorties to Brown Island, Eniwetok in response to raids on Tarawa, Makin and Abemama Atolls by Rear Admiral Charles A. Pownall's Task Force 15.
		Sunk: At 1936, MUSASHI capsizes to port and sinks by the bow in 4,430 feet of water in the Visayan Sea at 13-07N, 122-32E.
	www.combinedfleet.com /musashi.htm (4272 words)

	Bulatlat.com
		A witness, Jimboy Bat-aw, told media that the three were inside an eatery when three men in sleeveless shirts and camouflage shorts arrived, pulled out their guns and accused them as NPA members.
		Reports said that after the shooting, regular forces of the 60th IB led by a certain 2nd Lt.
		Lorenzana said that this spate of violence is part of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) grand plan to neutralize and discredit Bayan Muna and other progressive political groups by tagging them as communist fronts.
	www.bulatlat.com /news/4-14/4-14-death.html (681 words)

	Excellency, a Few Notes . . . - TIME
		They were the biggest guns yet used by the Jap in Luzon, and they began blasting at the fortress of Corregidor, where General Wainwright makes his headquarters.
		It will be regarded [remembered] that some time ago a note advising honorable surrender was sent to the Commander in Chief of your fighting forces.
		To the south, on the big island of Mindanao, where the Jap had grabbed the fine port of Davao, other U.S. soldiers, fierce Moro scouts under American officers, swooped down on a Jap force near storied Zamboanga and gave the invader fits.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,773167,00.html (716 words)

	Zamboanga del Norte : Municipality of Siocon
		considerable portion of the 70% of the labor force engaged in
		western part of Mindanao is paved by the country's tropical cyclones.
		Among this three groups of people Cebuano (Visayan) language is predominantly spoken which is about 58.13 of the municipality's total population, then followed by Tausog 13.14% and Maguindanao of 11.60%
	zamboangadelnorte.com /Siocon.htm (2131 words)

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