<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mwfA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: Fifty-four <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan" id="mwfQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Empire of Japan">Japanese</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A6M_Zero" id="mwfg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="A6M Zero">A6M Zero</a> fighters raid <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batangas" id="mwfw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Batangas">Batangas</a> Field, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philippines">Philippines</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesús_Villamor" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jesús Villamor">Jesús Villamor</a> and four <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Philippine">Filipino</a> fighter pilots fend them off; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/César_Basa" id="mwgw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="César Basa">César Basa</a> is killed.<sup about="#mwt81" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"}}' id="cite_ref-14" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_12#cite_note-14" id="mwhA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 14;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhQ">[14]</span></a></sup>
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