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Those who got decoded and seen the Japanese communications in early on December 1941 would not be amazed when they heard about an invasion on December 7, 1941. They might, however, be astonished when they noticed where that invasion took place. Submitted on the far side of the world, it was early on the morning of December 8 in the Philippines when American basic Douglas MacArthur received news of the Japanese invasion on Pearl Harbor hours earlier. Start, it might only be a matter of time before the Japan attacked the Philippines. Although MacArthur and Allied forces tried to hold out, they could only deal with a delaying action, and the Japanese were able to subdue all amount of resistance by the spring and coil of 1942. However, in the aftermath of Japan's successful invasion, as the country's military strategists began preparations for the next phase of military actions in the theater, their forces got to deal with a crucial logistical problem they had not foreseen. JAPAN had to deal with many Filipino and American troops who got surrendered after a lengthy defense in the Bataan peninsula, however they were not ready for so many prisoners of conflict because their own military services beliefs emphasized rigid discipline and fighting until the end. They could not imagine a predicament in which Japanese troops would willingly surrender, so they assumed that no other combatants would do so either. On the night of March 12, 1942, MacArthur, his family and closest advisors were smuggled out of Corregidor on PT boats.
