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Manila, the Philippine Islands. For extraordinary heroism during attacks on Jap bridgeheads at Vigan, in Northern Luzon, Lieutenant Jack Dale of the U.S. Army Air Corps received a Distinguished Service Cross from General MacArthur (right) before Japanese forces forced American troop retirement from Manila. Other air heroes decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross were Captain Jesus A. Villamor (center rear) of the Philippine Army, and posthumously, Captain Colin P. Kelly, Jr., who bombed and sank a Jap battleship off Luzon. This picture, made December 22, 1941, was one of the last to leave the Philippines

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Last ditch stand in Luzon. On a rugged, mountainous peninsula and a heavily fortified island American and Filipino troops made their final stand against Japanese invaders of Luzon. Map shows the Bataan Peninsula-Borregidor-Manila area where the U.S. and Japanese forces clashed

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Stretchers on a roadway in the Nidual River valley leading to the 3rd Marine Division Navy field hospital, which was the scene of a dawn attack by Japanese forces Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps)

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