Question

What happened when Japan attacked the Philippines and defeated American forces there?

Answer 1

The Allies won this battle, which helped lead to the defeat of Japan. ... This was to retaliate for the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7, 1941, and to show that Japan could be attacked. Douglas MacArthur. (1880-1964) An American military leader who was important in WWII in the Pacific

Answer 2

The victory of Japan marked the beginning of a domination of more than three years of the Japanese Empire over the Republic of the Philippines. The Allied survivors spent all this time under a harsh treatment by the victors, which included atrocities such as the March of Death shortly after the fall of Bataan and, for many thousands, slow death in concentration camps in appalling conditions and under inhumane treatment of Japanese soldiers

Many of these prisoners were sent to Japan on "death ships" to carry out slave labor in mines and factories. The Japanese did not mark the hulls and deck of these ships with the acronym P.O.W. (Prisioners of War) that identified them in the event of an air strike, and dozens of them were sunk by Allied airplanes, killing their occupants who were traveling in crowded basements with little ventilation, no food or water, and in which many died before reach the destination.