Stanley Karnow, journalist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, discusses the United States and the Philippines.
The Bataan peninsula, which forms the western side of Manila Bay, became the site of the outnumbered American and Filipino forces' retreat after Japanese attack in December 1941.
A death march survivor, Montana native Ben Steele spent the next 40 months in prison camps on a hell ship, and working as a slave laborer in a Japanese coal mine before his liberation at the end of the war.
