Philippine Islands: The US Army Campaigns of World War II

Author: Jennifer L Bailey

Publisher: US Govt Printing Office

Year published: 1992

Pagination: 23pp, 3 ills, 4 maps

Condition: New in paper cover

A brief pamphlet, published by the US Army Center of Military History, on the US Army's disastrous campaign in the Philippines, 1941-2. The fate of the defenders was sealed when the Japanese crippled the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 and destroyed US air assets in the Philippines a few hours later. This left the defenders of the islands isolated in the heart of a Japanes dominated Pacific with little chance of resupply or reinforcement