12th Quartermaster Regiment

The 12th Quartermaster Regiment was a regiment of the United States which was charged with quartermaster duties such as supplying all necessary ordnance, food, clothing, and supplies to the Philippine Division. Their colors were the only ones saved – entrusted to one of the "Angels of Bataan" who tricked a captor into thinking they were a cape and saved them through more than three years of internmenthttp://www.quartermaster.army.mil/oqmg/professional_bulletin/1998/spring_1998/foundations.html Dr. Steven E. Anders, Heritage and Values: FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE: Building Great Quartermaster Soldiers 2008-11-21 https://web.archive.org/web/20090815085512/http://www.quartermaster.army.mil/oqmg/Professional_Bulletin/1998/Spring_1998/foundations.html 2009-08-15 dead – after the Division was forced to surrender after the invasion of the Philippines by the Japanese forces during World War II. References "Honor Kept" 012 Category:Military history of the Philippines