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This is a category for those persons who were prisoners in the World War II Bataan Death March. It includes both those who survived and those who died. It includes both those who survived and those who died.
The Bataan Death March [a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of around 72,000 to 78,000 [1] [2] [3] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando.
Bataan Memorial Death March—A 26-mile (42 km) march commemorating the Bataan Death March, held yearly at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, US, sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Maywood Bataan Day Organization Marks Bataan Day on the second Sunday in September since 1942; Chicago's Bataan–Corregidor Memorial Bridge
• An April 2015 obituary for Alcide “Bull” Sylvio Benini states that he arrived in the Philippines in June 1940 and was captured April 7, 1942. He survived the Bataan Death March, Japanese ...
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]
Benigno de Guzman Tabora (November 20, 1915 – February 17, 2008) was a Filipino American veteran of both World War II and the Korean War.Tabora was one of the last of an increasingly dwindling group of veterans who survived the Bataan Death March in May 1942 after the Japanese captured the Philippines during World War II. [1]
Calvi died on July 16, 1942, according to prison and historical records, just months after the surrender of the peninsula. He was buried in a mass grave, known as Common Grave 316. U.S. Army Air ...
He survived the Bataan Death March during World War II while serving with the United States Army. Post war, he was a "founding father" of the United States Air Force Combat Control Teams, serving until 1970. He was known to comrades and friends as "Bull" because of his experiences, especially survival of the Bataan Death March and subsequent ...