World War II battle site, 1942

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King, a stocky fifty-eight-year-old artillery man from Atlanta who wore a neatly cropped full mustache, was at that moment standing before a sheet of plywood on which a large-scale map of the Bataan Peninsula had been mounted.

The boats, the only means of crossing the two miles of water from The Rock to Bataan, were disappearing .

Corregidor was an island in Manila Bay two miles off the tip of Bataan, about thirty miles from the capital of the Philippines, Manila.

Once Bataan fell, and the Japanese could bring their artillery to bear on the island, he was going to get killed by Japanese artillery.

B-17 bombers suddenly appearing to bomb the Japs off Bataan and out of the Philippines.

Or a fleet of Navy ships, carrying divisions of fully equipped soldiers from the States, to run the Japanese off Bataan and out of the Philippines.

Corregidor and Bataan and Luzon, make your way to one of the other islands, maybe Mindanao, and take off for the hills.

Corregidor and Bataan before escaping to Australia, where Mel was killed in an accident on an American air base.

With the Americans falling back on Bataan, and the British retreating to Fortress Singapore, Pug could see little hope anywhere, except in the Russian counterattacks.

Philippine roads, columns of unshaven, ragged, bowed Americans march to captivity from Bataan under the guns of scowling yellow dwarfs.

The only way he could have gotten from Bataan to Mindanao, as you well know, is by boat.

It winds up dying several times and experiencing the horrific stress of the Bataan Death March.

Though their defense of Bataan would have been unimpressive, without food, water, gasoline, or ammunition.

It remembered from ordnance maps at the Bataan base that Manila Bay was about forty kilometers south, and there were plenty of rivers through the Panga and Bulacan provinces.

Once in Manila Bay, it was about sixty kilometers around the Bataan peninsula to the South China Sea.