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The Bataan Death March Memorial Monument, erected in April 2001, is the only monument funded by the U.S. federal government dedicated to the victims of the Bataan Death March during World War II. The memorial was designed and sculpted by Las Cruces artist Kelley Hester and is located in Veterans Park along Roadrunner Parkway in New Mexico. [26]
Capas National Shrine in Capas, Tarlac. The Philippines being one of the major theaters of World War II, has commissioned a number of monuments, cemeteries memorials, preserved relics, and established private and public museums, as well as National Shrines, to commemorate battles and events during the invasion, occupation, and liberation of the country.
Bataan Legacy Historical Society continues to collaborate with organizations across the United States and the Philippines so that World War II in the Philippines can be learned by generations to come. To facilitate learning, lesson plans can be downloaded from the organization's website. The first Bataan Legacy presentation took place on April ...
The main feature of the Bataan World War II Museum behind Balanga Elementary School is a life-size diorama of the surrender of the US forces in the Philippines to Japanese commanders on April 9, 1942.
The New Mexico National Guard Bataan Memorial Museum is located in the armory where the soldiers of the 200th and 515th were processed before their deployment to the Philippines in 1941. [56] The old state capitol building of New Mexico was renamed the Bataan Memorial Building and now houses several state government agency offices.
A small museum and monument is also on the site, built by an American group called the "Battling Bastards of Bataan". [7] Included here is a roster of Filipino officers who were appointed by the Camp Commandant to manage the POWs. It also memorializes the daily sufferings of the POWs under the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army camp wards ...
The day commemorates the April 9, 1942, surrender of more than 12,000 American troops and 66,000 Filipino soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines to the Japanese.
Route of the Bataan Death March. After the surrender of 75,000 allied troops (12,000 Americans and 63,000 Filipinos) by General Edward King, Jr. to the Japanese forces during World War II, the American troops were forced to march 65 miles from Mariveles to San Fernando, with the march ending in Capas. This is now known as the Bataan Death March.