USAFFE (United States Armed Forces in the Far East) forces prepare a hastily assembled force of Filipino regulars and a few hundred American officers strung along thousands of miles of coastal areas. This file photo shows one of the heavy guns defending Corregidor Island, just across Manila Bay. The battle for the Philippine islands was the costliest for the Japanese, costing them 40,000 killed and wounded for the first three months alone.
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