TodayInHistory On this day in 1942, Maj. Gen. Edward King Jr., commander of Luzon Force defending the Bataan peninsula, surrendered to Japan’s 14th Army led by Lt. Gen. Masaharu Homma. READ:
When the war ended, he was flown to the Philippines to face trial for atrocities committed by his troops during the Bataan campaign. As expected, he was convicted and sentenced to death by musketry. Homma was executed by firing squad on April 3, 1946, four years to the day when he ordered the Good Friday offensive that led to the fall of Bataan.
Today we shall most likely mark Araw ng Kagitingan with the traditional visit by the President accompanied by the ambassadors of Japan and the United States, to the Shrine of Valor on Mount Samat. We shall recall the heroism of men who fought in fierce battles in Bataan. We shall relive the Death March and remember the concentration camp at O’Donnell in Tarlac.
On April 11, 1942, this group was separated from their American colleagues and moved to the Pantingan River that crosses the Pilar-Bagac Road. In his book, “Bataan: The March of Death,” American military historian Stanley Falk describes what took place after the separation: “The captives were formed into three groups and their wrists tied securely with double-strand telephone wire … At a given signal, the execution began.
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