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Bataan

or Ba·taán

[ buh-tan, -tahn; locally bah-tah-ahn ]

noun

  1. a peninsula on W Luzon, in the Philippines: U.S. troops surrendered to Japanese April 9, 1942.


Bataan

/ -ˈtɑːn; bəˈtæn /

noun

  1. a peninsula in the Philippines, in W Luzon: scene of the surrender of US and Philippine forces to the Japanese during World War II, later retaken by American forces


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But few things inspire more howling from writers than that post-publication Bataan death march known as the book tour.

Also, after Pearl Harbor and Bataan, it usually shyly follows America's lead in international affairs.

It is the sportswriting version of the Bataan Death March, The Longest Yard with the score still tied, the Bridge to Nowhere.

In May, Japan apologized for the Bataan Death March—the torturous trek that killed 2,500 men in 1942.

Some 2,500 American and Filipino POWs died on that infamous trek, the Bataan Death March.

He was at once offered (but wisely refused) his liberty, and later on he was put ashore at Balanga (Bataan).

He was the parish priest of the pueblo of Hermosa in the province of Bataan.

Being in the Bataan Province some years ago, I rode across the mountain range to the opposite coast with a military friend.

In Bataan the Negritos sometimes shave a circular place on the crown, but I am not informed as to the reason.

The writer can not vouch for the vocabularies from Bataan and Bulacan, but gives them for the sake of comparison.

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