Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I whakawhiwhia e te Tumuaki Douglas MacArthur ki te ope taua tuaono a Lieutenant General Walter Krueger, te mahi ki te hopu i a Bataan, ā, i muri mai ki a Corregidor. Ko te US XI Corps, hou mai i te Campaign Leyte
, i raro i te rangatira o Charles P. Hall, i whakarei ake i te ope taua tuaono. Ko te 38th Infantry Division i whakahaua e Maj. Gen. Henry L.C. Jones me Colonel Aubrey "Red" S. Newman's 34th Infantry, 24th Infantry Division, ko te XI Corps te taunga ki te takutai o Zambales e rua tekau ma rima ma rima maero (40 km) ki te raki-ki te hauauru o Bataan, tere haere ki te rawhiti puta noa i te turanga o te peninsula, ka neke ki te tonga, ka horoi i a Bataan, tae atu ki tona takutai rawhiti.