{"id":3852,"date":"2019-02-05T15:47:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2019-02-05T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T23:47:52","slug":"defense-of-the-philippines-during-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=3852","title":{"rendered":"Defense of the Philippines during WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Civilian prisoners who were held in the Philippines during WW II by the Japanese Imperial Army are having a luncheon meeting in Long Beach, California, to hear noted historian and author Jay Wertz describe the role of the Philippine Scouts in the defense of Luzon in 1941-42.\u00a0 The public is invited to join the ex-prisoners, friends and family at this luncheon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After\n the Japanese invasion in 1941, the American Army under General \nMacArthur undertook a withdrawal on the Bataan Peninsula that delayed \nthe Japanese timetable to invade Australia but ended in the horrific \nBataan Death March after these forces ran out of food and ammunition.&nbsp; \nOf the 44,000 American troops involved, over a quarter were Philippine \nScouts, tough and well-trained troops who were key to the defensive \nstrategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of these fighters will be told by Jay Wertz who has written several books on the Pacific war along with books on other campaigns.&nbsp; \nThe presentation will be held as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>DATE: Saturday, March 2, 2019<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<p>PLACE: Tantalum Restaurant, Long Beach Marina<br> \n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;6272 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach, California<br>\nTIME: 12:00 noon<br>\nPRICE: $42 per person<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please select an entr\u00e9e from the menu choices below, which include salad dessert and beverage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<ul>\n    <li>Vegetarian Pita Taco<\/li>\n    <li>Rib eye sandwich<\/li>\n    <li>Hoisin chicken<\/li>\n    <li>Mahi Mahi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For reservations, send a check made out to BACEPOW by February 23 to: <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\n<ul>\nSharon Davis<br \/>\nP.O. Box 7711, 1133 Camelback<br \/>\nNewport Beach, CA 92658\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civilian prisoners who were held in the Philippines during WW II by the Japanese Imperial Army are having a luncheon meeting in Long Beach, California, to hear noted historian and author Jay Wertz describe the role of the Philippine Scouts in the defense of Luzon in 1941-42.\u00a0 The public is invited to join the ex-prisoners, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,19],"post_folder":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RCb-108","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3877,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/3877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}