Crossword clues for bataan
bataan
- Wayne film "Back to ___"
- Luzon peninsula
- Site of W.W. II action
- Battleground of 1942
- WWII Philippine battleground
- Peninsula lost and recaptured during WWII
- 1942 Philippine battle site
- World War II battle site, 1942
- Southeast Asian battle site of early 1942
- Site of fighting in early 1942
- Scene of surrender, 1942
- Philippines battleground of 1942
- Philippine battle site of 1942
- P. I. peninsula
- Luzon battle site
- Corregidor's neighbor
- Besieged peninsula in WWII's Pacific theater
- W.W. II Philippine battle site
- 1943 Robert Taylor film
- Historic 1942 surrender site
- 1942 surrender site
- W.W. II battle site, 1942
- Philippine peninsula
- Philippine locale in W.W. II
- Where Douglas MacArthur returned, famously
- Remains here?
- 1942 invasion site
- The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II
- United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945
- 1942 Philippines fighting locale
- "Men on ___," book by 47 Across
- MacArthur battle site
- Site of Gen. Wainwright's stand
Wikipedia
Bataan ( ; ) is a province situated in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. Its capital is the City of Balanga. Occupying the entire Bataan Peninsula on Luzon, Bataan is bordered by the provinces of Zambales and Pampanga to the north. The peninsula faces the South China Sea to the west and Subic Bay to the north-west, and encloses Manila Bay to the east.
The Battle of Bataan is famous in history as one of the last stands of American and Filipino soldiers before they were overwhelmed by the Japanese forces in World War II. The Bataan Death March was named after the province, where the infamous march started.
Located within the province is the Philippines' only nuclear power plant, the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
Bataan is a province of the Philippines.
Bataan may also refer to:
Bataan (1943) is a war film about the defense of the Bataan Peninsula during World War II. It was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Tay Garnett and produced by Irving Starr, with Dore Schary as executive producer. It starred Robert Taylor, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell and Robert Walker.
Usage examples of "bataan".
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.