Under normal fighting conditions, Wainwright would have ensured his soldiers had at least four thousand calories a day. In Bataan, he struggled to provide them with two thousand. Theoretically, MacArthur had put the troops on Corregidor on the same half rations. In reality, the troops on Bataan always received less even though they needed more for the obvious reason that fighting in foxholes expends more energy than being holed up in a tunnel.
