Thursday, March 11, 2010

CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 22, 1942


The Hayward Review
Hayward, California February 22, 1942

JAP ARMY OF 300,000 THRUST AT GEN. MACARTHUR IN LUZON

ARMY OF GEN. MACARTHUR GREATLY OUTNUMBERED YANK ARMY BATTLES COURAGEOUSLY;
ENEMY REINFORCEMENTS POUR IN
Americans And Filipinos Fight Side By
Side In Great Struggle; British Forces
lake Offensive on Three Malayan Fronts

By UNITED PRESS
The Japanese threw an entire army of perhaps 200,000 to 300 000 men into the fight on Luzon Thursday and
renewed fierce attacks all along General Douglas "
Arthur's line on the Bataan peninsula.
A war department communique
from Washington
said, "The entire Japanese
14th array, under capable
General Homma. together
with a number of other units
is now in Luzon."
It's Outnumbered
Enemy reinforcements---

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