On the south side of the building.

Marker

A memorial stone marker with a rectangular plaque at its center commemorates the surrender of Major General Edward P. King to Japanese forces on April 9, 1942, marking the capitulation of American and Filipino troops at Bataan on this site. The marker was established here in Lamao by the Battling Bastards of Bataan with the help of the Bataan Historic Researcher Edna Binkowski.

On April 9, 1942, Major General Edward P. King Jr. surrendered the American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese, marking the largest surrender in U.S. military history. With his troops suffering from starvation, disease, and exhaustion, King chose to surrender without authorization to prevent further loss of life, meeting Japanese officers at Lamao where only his personal, unconditional surrender was accepted. 

Source of information: corregidor.proboards.com, nationalww2museum.org, CMH Publication 5-2

Source of photo: corregidor.proboards.com

"AT THIS SITE ON 9 APRIL 1942 MAJ. GEN. EDWARD P. KING JR., COMMANDING GENERAL, LUZON FORCES, SURRENDERED HIS COMMAND TO THE JAPANESE ARMY COL. MOTOO NAKAYAMA 14^TH ARMY.REPRESENTING LT. GEN. MASSAHARU HOMMA OVERALL COMMANDER OF THE JAPANESE FORCES ENVADING THE PHILIPPINES FACED WITH THE SLAUGHTER OF OVER 75,000 MEN GEN. KING SHOWED GREAT COURAGE BY HIS DECISION TO END THE BLOOD BATH FEARING A POSSIBLE COURT-MARTIAL FOR HIS ACTIONS. GEN. KING KNOWING THAT HIS TROOPS WERE DISEASE-RIDDEN AND STARVING AND THAT A CONTINUED RESISTANCE WAS FUTILE, OPTED TO SAVE THE LIVES OF HIS MEN."