Which of the following statements regarding the fall of the Philippines is false?

A) ?Trapped U.S. troops held out for six months in the Bataan Peninsula before being forced to surrender to Japanese troops.
B) ?President Roosevelt ordered commanding general Douglas MacArthur to slip out of the Philippines, leaving his troops behind.
C) ?When the defenders surrendered, the Japanese forced them to walk roughly 70 miles with little or no food or water.
D) ?The fall of the Philippines deeply divided Americans, who began to question whether the country should be at war.


D

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