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...
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Mariveles (redirect from Mariveles, Bataan, Philippines)
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...
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Naval Base Manila (section Auxiliary Airfields)
Gardiners Bay (AVP-39) Manila auxiliary airfields included: Bataan Airfield: Located on the east side of Bataan Peninsula, constructed in 1941 and used...
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24th Pursuit Group (section After Bataan)
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...
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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...
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The Battle of Bataan (Tagalog: Labanan sa Bataan; January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Imperial...
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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...
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evacuated to airfields on the Bataan Peninsula. On 2 January 1942, five surviving P-35As attempted to fly from Pilar Field to Bataan Airfield, but two were...
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USS Bataan (CVL-29/AVT-4), originally planned as USS Buffalo (CL-99) and also classified as CV-29, was an 11,000 ton Independence-class light aircraft...
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under this category. All privately owned aerodromes (airports, airstrips, airfields) are outside of the CAAP's classification system. The old ATO system,...
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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...
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and maintain both it and Bataan airfields. Mariveles Field. The existing dirt liaison field at the southernmost point on Bataan was abandoned on 7 January...
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Nichols Field (category World War II airfields in the Philippines)
by FEAF fighters. On the night of 26/27 January 1942 Fighters from Bataan Airfield, bombed and strafed Nichols during the night inflicting considerable...
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United States Army Air Forces in the South West Pacific Theatre (section Airfields and major unit assignments)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Philippines campaign (1941–1942) (section Withdrawal into Bataan, 24 December 1941 to 6 January 1942)
(1990). Bataan: Our Last Ditch: The Bataan Campaign, 1942. Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-87052-877-7. Young, Donald J. (1992). The Battle of Bataan: A History...
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Japanese invasion, the 26th participated in the Allied withdrawal to the Bataan Peninsula. In doing so, the unit conducted a classic delaying action that...
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moved to a hidden spot in the jungle on high ground about a mile from Bataan Airfield. The detachment served as part of an early warning system and was linked...
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the Philippines. Despite being located nearer to the southern coast of Bataan, Corregidor and the other fortified islands of Manila Bay fall under the...
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Douglas MacArthur (redirect from Bataan Gang)
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...
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ground or in the air. The order for all Air Corps units to move to Bataan Airfield in early January 1942 meant that any remaining squadron personnel left...
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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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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...
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covered the withdrawal of Filipino and American forces during the Battle of Bataan. Despite the overwhelming odds working against them, the "New Mexico Brigade"...
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a list of airfields operated by the United States Navy which are located within the United States and abroad. The US Navy's main airfields are designated...
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inducting officer at the Nichols Airfield in Pasay outside Manila. The first Philippine Army airfield (Zablan Airfield) was built outside of Manila, Luzon...
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Jose Gozar (category Bataan Death March prisoners)
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...
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Cannon Air Force Base (redirect from Clovis Army Airfield)
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...
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