A communist rebel voluntarily surrendered to authorities in Bagac, Bataan on Wednesday along with his firearm and explosives.

See a brief timeline of the American experience during World War II in the Philippines below. Early January: The Japanese occupy Manila. U.S. forces retreat south into the Bataan peninsula.

Garen, all survivors of the Bataan Death March and imprisonment ... and 12,000 American prisoners of war to march through the Philippines a route of about 65 miles enduring tropical heat, humidity ...