Bataan Airfield was a former wartime United States Army Air Forces airfield on Luzon in the Philippines. It was overrun by the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of the Philippines (1942). The airfield was located near the village of Lucanin, south Lamao in Bataan Province.
BataanAirfield was a former wartime United States Army Air Forces airfield on Luzon in the Philippines. It was overrun by the Imperial Japanese Army...
(AV-13) USS Gardiners Bay (AVP-39) Manila auxiliary airfields: BataanAirfield on the east side of Bataan Peninsula, built in 1941. Used by US Army and Navy...
Airfield, a 3,800-foot (1,200 m) dirt runway at the Section Base, was the starting point of the Bataan Death March. Today the Freeport Area of Bataan...
The Battle of Bataan (Tagalog: Labanan sa Bataan; January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Japan...
survivors fought as infantry during Battle of Bataan and after their surrender, were subjected to the Bataan Death March, although some did escape to Australia...
Pasig Airfield in Pasig (closed 1942) Porac Airfield in Porac (closed 1945) Quezon Airfield in Quezon City (closed 1945; now North Avenue) Samal (Bataan 2020...
Bataan, Philippines on 8 April 1942, the remainder of the 24th Pursuit Group withdrew to Mindanao Island and began operating from Del Monte Airfield with...
under this category. All privately owned aerodromes (airports, airstrips, airfields) are outside of the CAAP's classification system. The old ATO system,...
Back to Bataan is a 1945 American black-and-white World War II war film drama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk...
by FEAF fighters. On the night of 26/27 January 1942 Fighters from BataanAirfield, bombed and strafed Nichols during the night inflicting considerable...
to move south to the Bataan Peninsula, and the five remaining aircraft of the 34th attempted to fly to Bataan from Lubao Airfield, but two were shot down...
Allied ground forces, the USAAF Fifth Air Force established a series of airfields, some at existing facilities, but most were carved out of the jungle to...
sites in the country. Despite being located nearer to the southern coast of Bataan, Corregidor and the other fortified islands of Manila Bay fall under the...
tender USS Jason and Sangley Point Bataan Peninsula on 24 January 1945, with Mariveles Seaplane base, port and Airfield. Japan is bombing the runway. Mariveles...
the Battle of the Philippines, some of its squadron members endured the Bataan Death March. Reactivated during the Vietnam War, the squadron went on to...
the Philippines. MacArthur's forces were soon compelled to withdraw to Bataan, where they held out until May 1942. In March 1942, MacArthur, his family...
covered the withdrawal of Filipino and American forces during the Battle of Bataan. Despite the overwhelming odds working against them, the "New Mexico Brigade"...
combat, and strikes against enemy airfields and shipping. The squadron's ground echelon fought as an infantry unit in Bataan from 18 January to 12 February...
ground or in the air. The order for all Air Corps units to move to BataanAirfield in early January 1942 meant that any remaining squadron personnel left...
inducting officer at the Nichols Airfield in Pasay outside Manila. The first Philippine Army airfield (Zablan Airfield) was built outside of Manila, Luzon...
Cabcaben Airfield, and anti-aircraft activities. By April 9, 1942, a day after Lt. Gozar's birthday, the forces under Gen. Edward P. King in Bataan, which...
held the left flank of the US Army’s II Corps throughout the defense of Bataan, even escaping encirclement in the final battles, earning them the moniker...
Japanese Army's southern advance, American and Filipino forces withdrew to Bataan peninsula and Corregidor Island and held out for the next few months. Gen...
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