[6] When the Japanese began landing at Lamon Bay on December 24, 1941, South Luzon Force was badly dispersed.

Lim, and movement only commenced when 41st Division staff officers were able to commandeer buses of the Pasay Transportation Company.

Natib trail and Balantay River and defended the center of the Abucay Line,[9] against Japanese assaults[10] until ordered to retreat on 22 January.

[11] The 41st Division was then ordered to hold east of Pantingan River in Pilar, Bataan and west of Mount Samat, along the Orion-Bagac Line, making them as the key unit to hold any southern movement of the Japanese forces through Trail 29.

The 141st Battalion by April 9 recorded that they have lost 70% of their manpower facing the 41st Division units.

The first, in the center of the division front where bamboo fires burned fiercely, had retreated in a disorderly fashion, some of the men following Trail 29 into the 41st Infantry area, and others drifting eastward to join the retreating 43d on the western slopes of Mt.

Only the 41st Infantry on the extreme left of the line, which had escaped the full weight of the preliminary bombardment, had withdrawn in an orderly fashion.

Edward P. King Jr., commander of Bataan Defense Force, surrendered to prevent the unnecessary slaughter of his war-torn troops, negotiating the surrender of the Bataan troops with the Japanese High Command.

Upon arrival in San Fernando 6,000 of them were herded in the city's cock pit arena.

The following day, the POWs from the 41st Division were packed 80-100 in railway boxcars and transported from San Fernando to Sto.