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- The Philippines were a strategic objective of the Japanese forces. The island's resources and the elimination of General Douglas A. MacArthur's Far Eastern Air Force were the prime objectives, thus allowing their expansion in the area without the fears of aerial attacks.
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The Japanese 14th Army began its invasion with a landing on Batan Island (not to be confused with Bataan Peninsula), 120 miles (190 km) off the north coast of Luzon, on 8 December 1941 by selected naval infantry units.
In the early morning hours of December 8, 1941 (still December 7 in Hawaii), Japanese land-based naval bombers and Zero fighters from Formosa were detected by radar heading over Lingayan Gulf in the direction of Manila.
Dec 5, 2022 · The Japanese Empire’s attacks on U.S. and British colonial territories in December 1941 were an attempt to assert dominance in the Asia-Pacific region, especially after U.S. sanctions...
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Apr 10, 2018 · On December 7, 1941 the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor. The attack killed 2,403 service members and wounded 1,178 more, and sank or...
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Nov 4, 2019 · At 3 a.m. Philippine Time on December 8, 1941, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was awakened from his slumber by a telephone call informing him that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor just an hour...
Nov 17, 2017 · On December 8, 1941, around 3 am local time, the news reached US forces in the Philippines that Pearl Harbor was under attack. The long-awaited war with Japan had finally come. Confusion followed about what to do with American planes on the ground in the Philippines.
This map shows the Philippines at the time of the Japanese attack in December 1941. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a thick belt of Japanese-occupied islands blocked support from the weakened US Pacific Fleet based at Hawaii.
