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The Bataan Peninsula is a rocky extension of the Zambales Mountains, on Luzon in the Philippines. It separates the Manila Bay from the South China Sea.
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The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan 's invasion of the Philippines. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to ...
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Bataan Peninsula, mountainous area of western Luzon Island, in the northern Philippines, bounded on the east by Manila Bay and on the south and west by the South China Sea. During World War II the peninsula was the scene of heavy fighting between Allied and Japanese forces from January 6, 1942, to April 9, 1942. Bataan fell to Japan on April 9 and was retaken by American troops on February 17, 1945.