A Legacy of Heroes: The Story of Bataan and Corregidor

29 August 2008 — tetp

This tells the “truer story” behind the “forgotten war” of Bataan and Corregidor — savage battles that violently
hurled falsely reassured Filipinos and an ill-prepared Philippines into the Second World War in the Pacific. Produced
by the Department of National Defense of the Philippines and the Philippines Veterans Affairs Office this series of
videos documents the outstanding courage, heroism and nobility of Filipinos regardless the inevitable fall of the
country to the unrelenting Imperial Japanese military juggernaut. An outcome inevitably irreversible despite the
fierce resistance of the mostly Filipino and American defenders as the United States government relegated succor to
the loyal but unwarily naive Philippine Commonwealth as secondary to America’s commitment to her European allies.

This historical account belies many of the myths that have long distorted the realities of Philippine American relations
and a must for the serious student of history, geopolitics and military matters. On a lighter yet equally revealing note
it also gives a glimpse of pre-war Manila and Philippine society