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Post by EXO on Jun 8, 2019 9:27:56 GMT 8
It irks me big time that there are so many erroneous stories floating around about the Fall of the Philippines, and that despite it being quite clear to the contrary (if one did a proper research) there is a partisan sponsored revisionism of the circumstances. Lately I saw an article which suggested that the surrender by Wainwright of the entirety of the USFIP was a better outcome than the plan to divide the US forces in the Philippines into four separate commands, such that the defeat of one would not become the defeat of them all. Finding these (photographic reproductions) which establish that "the President desires that in Mindanao you take such measures as will insure a prolonged defense of that region," I felt that it was better to reproduce them for educational purposes. This document also contains a reference to FDR's direction that MacArthur leave Fort Mills, and why.
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Post by Steve W on Jul 16, 2023 8:26:36 GMT 8
My grandfather was not given the opportunity for exfil to Australia. He was ordered from Corregidor to the Southern Islands in mid-February 1942 (based on order from GEN MacArthur). He departed on the SS Legaspi to the Southern Islands (that vessel was sunk by the Japanese on the return voyage). He was ordered to surrender on 24 May (18 days after the fall of Corregidor). He had been living among the locals in Panay and providing intelligence reports to his superiors via the locals. He was a POW for three and a half years until liberation in September 1945. He never fully recovered from that experience.
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