From Shanghai to Corregidor: Marines in the Defense of the Philippines
Author: first_name: J. Michael
last_name: Miller
Language: English
Year: 1997

In September 1941, Colonel Samuel L. Howard, USMC, Commanding Officer, 4th Marines, recommended to Admiral Thomas Hart, USN, Commander-in-Chief, Asiatic Fleet, that Howard's regiment be evacuated from its longtime duty station in Shanghai. The regiment comprised two small battalions, made up of approximately 800 Marines and attached naval personnel, and was dangerously exposed to Japanese attack should war come. On 10 November 1941, Colonel Howard received the long-awaited orders to prepare the