Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valour), 9 April, the day Bataan fell into Japanese hands, was declared a national holiday in the Philippines [REF].
, commissioned on 17 November 1943, the United States Navy Independence class aircraft carrier commemorated "those who served and sacrificed in the Philippines in the name of freedom in the Pacific" until her decommissioning on 9 April 1954.