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Kawainaito: Kawaide! Educate.

Kawaide: The Battle of Battaan  (7 January – 9 April 1942) was a battle that represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the  Philippines during World War II . In January 1942, forces of the Imperial Japanese Army  and Navy  invaded Luzon  along with several islands in the Philippine Archipelago after the bombing  of the American nava lbase at Pearl Harbor . The commander-in-chief of all Filipino and American forces in the islands, General D ouglas MacArthur, consolidated all of his Luzon-based units on the Bataan  Peninsula to fight against the Japanese invaders. By this time, the Japanese controlled nearly all of Southeast Asia. The Bataan  peninsula and the island of C orregidor were the only remaining Allied strongholds in the region. Despite a lack of supplies, Filipino and American forces managed to fight the Japanese for three months, engaging them initially in a fighting retreat southward. As the combined Filipino and American forces made a last stand, the delay cost the Japanese valuable time and prevented immediate victory across the Pacific. The surrender at Bataan, with 76,000 soldiers surrendering in the Philippines altogether,   was the largest in American  and F ilipino military histories<span style="font-weight:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">, and was the largest United States surrender since the American Civil War <span style="font-weight:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">'s Battle  of Harper's Ferry<span style="font-weight:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">. <span style="font-weight:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;"> Soon afterwards, Filipino and American prisoners  of war<span style="font-weight:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;"> were forced into the Bataan Death March