Associated Press

The Associated Press, or AP, is an American news agency, the world's largest such organization. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers and radio stations in the United States, who both contribute stories to it and use material written by its staffers. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers — that is, they pay a fee to use AP material but are not members of the cooperative.

The AP ran a story on the dire situation in the Philipines in April, 1942. The story focused on the dire situation at Baatan, specifically the lack of food and medical supplies provided to American troops.