Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakawhiwhia e General Douglas MacArthur ki a Lieutenant General Walter Krueger's Sixth Army, te mahi ki te hopu i a Bataan, a muri ake ko Corregidor. Ko te US XI Corps, hou mai i te
Ko Leyte Campaign, i raro i te rangatira o Major General Charles P. Hall, i whakarei i te Ope 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.