I Saw The Fall Of The Philippines

This is the story of seventeen million Filipinos who cast their lot with America when the hour of danger struck for the American flag. It is the story of seven thousand American soldiers and seventy-five thousand Filipinos against two hundred fifty thousand Japanese - a hopeless fight by men who gradually lost hope as their numbers shrank and more Japanese poured down the hills and scaled the cliffs of Bataan. I saw Filipino boys I knew and loved blown to shreds before my eyes - as one American soldier put it, "trapped like rats but dying like men." View Less