All across the island, US troops destroy their weapons or raid the remaining food and liquor stocks. The Japanese send word that they will only deal with Wainwright. With his aide, Maj. Tom Dooley, Wainwright drives to Water Tank Hill and climb on foot to the Japanese positions, noting that there are three Japanese dead for every American. The Japanese take Wainwright by launch to Cabcaben in Bataan.
Wainwright surrender all the Philippines.
The exhausted Wainwright draws up a surrender of the entire archipelago, and signs it just before midnight. The Japanese take the exhausted Wainwright back to Corregidor, and he flings himself on his cot, exhausted, reviewing the bitterest and most humiliating day of his life. Incredibly, crewmen from the minesweeper USS Quail, under their skipper, Lt. Cdr. John H. Morrill, escape Fort Hughes in a 36-foot long diesel motor launch, and sail all the way to Port Darwin, Australia. In Madagascar, the 29th British Brigade attacks the Vichy French, who are using shipwrecked Sailors to add to their land defenses.