A U.S. Army soldier from Northern California who was captured during World War II and died as a prisoner of war in the Philippines has ... Islands in December 1941. U.S. forces surrendered on ...

See a brief timeline of the American experience during World War II in the Philippines below. Early January: The Japanese occupy Manila. U.S. forces retreat south into the Bataan peninsula.

Roosevelt signed a bill that made the Philippines ... World War II interrupted the transition to independence. Within minutes of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, but Pearl Harbor ... The Japanese invasion of the Philippines was the first action of World War II in which units of the U.S ...