More falsehood from the Philipine.
Here’s what really happened to the ‘invasion’:
“There was no activity near Vigan during the night of the 10th, but from Lingayen Gulf, 100 miles to the south, came reports of another Japanese landing. Around midnight “several dark shapes” were observed approaching the mouth of the Agno River. When confirmation was received, one battery of the 3d Battalion, 21st Field Artillery (PA), opened fire. “It was like dropping a match in a warehouse of Fourth of July fireworks,” wrote the American instructor assigned to the regiment. “Instantly Lingayen Gulf was ablaze. As far as the eye could see the flashes of artillery, shell-bursts, tracer machine gun bullets and small arms. . . . Thousands of shadows were killed that night.”34 When morning came, all that was found of the supposed invasion was one life preserver with markings which may have been Japanese characters. The absence of sunken ships did not prevent the 21st Division commander, Brig. Gen. Mateo Capinpin, from reporting to Manila that an attempted hostile landing had been repulsed.35
“What actually happened that night was that the Japanese had sent one motor boat into Lingayen Gulf on a reconnaissance mission. The Japanese had no force near Lingayen then and no plan for a landing in the area at that time. Nevertheless, the news of the frustrated enemy landing was reported in the press as a great victory and the 21st Field Artillery was officially credited with repulsing an enemy landing.”36
http://www.history.army.mil/books/wwii/5-2/5-2_6.htm#p100a
Some good books there. I’ll probably get an ereader for Christmas - I’ll have to figure out how to get them on it.
Such incidents happened wherever tensions were high. Think about the Los Angeles air raid.