US Army's defense of the Philippines and Malay colonies relied on island fortresses like Corregidor, but it was lost to a Japanese attack on May 6, 1942. Colonel Joseph Madden, a survivor, was tasked with organizing a guerrilla resistance with the help of Captain Andrés Bonifácio, the grandson of a legendary anti-US freedom fighter.
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Colonel Joseph Madden, a U.S. Army officer, remains in the Philippines in 1942 after its fall to the Japanese, and he works to establish a local resistance movement against the occupiers.