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SFC Ralph Koch
to remember
Lilly, Jr., Edmund, COL.
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Contact Info
Home Town Fayetteville
Last Address 508 Oakridge Avenue Fayetteville, NC 38305
Date of Passing Nov 28, 1978
Location of Interment Cumberland Memorial Gardens - Fayetteville, North Carolina
There are transcriptions and scans of diaries that he kept as well as lists of fellow POWs and other information. These papers were donated by COL Lilly's family to the Combined Arms Research Library in 1998. They are mostly related to his time in captivity by the Japanese during WWII.
This interview includes some of COL Lilly's experiences in WWI, prior and post WWII.
Philippine Islands Campaign (1941-42)/Battle of Bataan
From Month/Year
December / 1941
To Month/Year
April / 1942
Description The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast Asia flank. It was the largest surrender in American and Filipino military history, and was the largest United States surrender since the Civil War's Battle of Harper's Ferry. Ultimately, more than 60,000 Filipino and 15,000 American prisoners of war were forced into the infamous Bataan Death March.
After more than two years of fighting in the Pacific, General Douglas MacArthur fulfilled a promise to return to overseeing the The Campaign for the Liberation of the Philippines. As part of the campaign, the Battle for the Recapture of Bataan (31 January to 21 February 1945) by US Forces and Philippine guerillas avenged the surrender of the defunct United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) to invading Japanese forces.
