Question: commander of the american and filipino forces in bataan
Answer: Douglas MacArthur

title: Battle of Bataan
text: Battle of Bataan The Battle of Bataan (Filipino: "Labanan sa Bataan") (7 January – 9 April 1942) represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. In January 1942, forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded Luzon along with several islands in the Philippine Archipelago after the bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. The commander-in-chief of all Filipino and U.S. forces in the islands, General Douglas MacArthur, consolidated all of his Luzon-based units on the Bataan Peninsula to fight against the Japanese army. By this time, the Japanese