The U.S.Cavalry’s Last Charge

With obsolescence looming and the Philippines in peril, American horse soldiers rode in an unlikely but successful fight. “Skinny” Wainwright was fighting mad. With the Japanese poised to cross the Batalan River unopposed, he hastened to Bagac, a village on the west coast of the Bataan Peninsula, part of southern Luzon in the Philippines. It …

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