Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mukuru wehondo Douglas MacArthur akapa Hondo Yechitanhatu yaMutevedzeri Mukuru Walter Krueger, basa rokutora Bataan, uye gare gare Corregidor. U.S. XI Corps, ichangobva kuLeyte Campaign
, pasi paMajor General Charles P. Hall, vakawedzera Sixth Army. Iine 38th Infantry Division yaitungamirirwa naMajor General Henry L.C. Jones naColonel Aubrey "Red" S. Newman's 34th Infantry, 24th Infantry Division, XI Corps yaifanira kumhara pamhenderekedzo yeZambales anenge makumi maviri nemashanu mamaira (40 km) kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweBataan, kutyaira nekukurumidza kumabvazuva kuyambuka hwaro hwepeninsula, uyezve kutsvaira kumaodzanyemba, kuchenesa Bataan, kusanganisira kumabvazuva kwemahombekombe.