On April 9, 1942, officials in command of Bataa where Filipino and American forces maintained the main resistance in the war against the Japanese, formally surrendered.
Through the Voice of Freedom radio broadcast, Third Lieutenant Normando Ildefonso Reyes, reading a message prepared by Captain Salvador P. Lopez, informed the Philippines and the world from Malinta Tunnel in Corregidor “Bataan has fallen” .
Araw ng kagitingan (“Day of Valor”) is also known as “Bataan Day”.
Araw ng kagitingan commemorates the fall of the Bataan peninsula during World War II after months of fighting between the Philippine and American armies against the invading Japanese.
