Just 10 hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor they launched a surprise attack on the Philippines on December 8, 1941. There the U.S. and Philippines fought hard under terrible circumstances until the final surrender on the Bataan Peninsula in April of 1942. 80,000 men were forced to walk the "Death March" to a prison camp to the north just over 100 miles away. As many as 10,000 soldiers died on the march because of poor health and disease.
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People in the Philippines greatly opposed the Japanese occupation of the land by enormous and effective underground and guerilla activity. About 260,000 people were in guerilla organizations. General MacArthur's forces returned from Australia and pushed the Japanese back until they surrendered on September 2, 1945. More than 1 million Filipinos had been killed and they had also suffered tremendous physical damage, but the U.S. took back the ground for the Philippines and the Japanese lost ground.
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