strenuous conditions that resulted in widespread starvation and disease. (7) Securing the withdrawal of United States forces on Luzon to the Bataan Peninsula were— (A) 1,809 New Mexico National Guardsmen from 200th and 515th Coast Artillery (Antiaircraft) regiments. First stationed at Fort Stotsenberg north of Manila, they are credited as being the First to Fire in the defense of the Philippines on December 8, 1941