Film Review: Bataan (1943)
Hours after attacking the United States Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese carrier planes bombed the main bases of the American Far East Air Force in the Philippines. In the following days, the Japanese 14th Army commanded by Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma invaded Luzon, Mindanao, and several other islands in the Philippine Archipelago, effectively gaining air and land superiority over the area by cutting the line of communication from Australia and establishing a blockade against the U.S. Asiatic Fleet.
