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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 Death March memorial in Las Cruces Veterans Memorial Park. Across the United States, and in the Philippines there exist dozens of memorials, such as monuments, plaques and schools, dedicated to the U.S. and Filipino prisoners who suffered or died during the Bataan Death March. There is also a wide variety of commemorative events held to ...
Afterward, prisoners were forced on a 65-mile march, later known as the Bataan Death March, from the peninsula to a prisoner-of-war camp that resulted in thousands of deaths along the way, while ...
Keith Matthew Maupin – captured on April 9, 2004, date of murder unknown, remains found March 30, 2008; Charles Cardwell McCabe – a POW and chaplain at Libby Prison during the American Civil War; John McCain – Republican nominee for president in 2008, POW for over five years in Vietnam; Olivier Messiaen – French composer
Camp Pangatian was then used as a POW camp for the soldiers who survived the death march. [4] Although this event occurred in 1942, no memorial was erected until 1982. The Camp Pangatian P.O.W. camp was liberated in 1945 in an operation known as the most successful tactical rescue mission ever executed by the American military, the raid at ...
Alvin R. Scarborough, 22, was one of the troops subjected to a 65-mile Bataan death march in the Philippines during World War II. Remains of Mississippi airman identified 81 years after he died as POW
[5]: 67–68 He was imprisoned at Camp O'Donnell and then, from June to 26 October 1942, at Cabanatuan. [5]: 97, 130 There, his men and he were routinely denied the rights of prisoners of war. [5]: 130–131 Dyess and others were transported by ship, the Erie Maru, to the Davao Penal Colony on Mindanao, [5]: 154 arriving November 7.