Professor Greg Jackson

the Japanese hit the last holdout, the U.S.

Army headquarters on the island of Corregidor, with intense, sustained barrages from April 17th right into the next month.

Eventually, General Skinny Wainwright is forced to fly the white flag, literally.

Initially refusing to surrender the entirety of the Philippines, Skinny complies as the Japanese threaten to take his lack of compliance out on his captured men.

That gets him.

The vanquished American general signs the paper surrendering the whole of the Philippines on May 6th, 1942.

With President Manuel Quezon safe in Australia, the Japanese further confirmed their power over the Philippines that same week by executing his current substitute, Acting President José Abad Santos.

Regularly serving as the Commonwealth's Chief Justice, the dark-haired, handsome 56-year-old meets this end with dignity near the city of Malabang on the island of Mindanao.

He only asks for 10 minutes with his 22-year-old son, Jose Jr., or Pepito as everyone knows him.

And this request, at least, is granted.

When Jose breaks the news to Pepito, the young man naturally bursts into tears.

Calmly, Jose responds, telling him, Do not cry, Pepito.

Show these people that you are brave.

It is a rare opportunity for me to die for our country.

Not everybody is given that chance.

From there, the father and son are given the time to enter a nearby shack to pray the Catholic act of contrition together.

But soon, the soldiers come.

The acting president offers his son his last words.

Take good care of your mother, your brother, and sisters.

Tell them to live up to our name.