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The Bataan Death March [a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of around 75,000 [1] 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.
A post-war trial would find the Japanese commander in the Battle of Bataan and the man responsible for the troops that carried out the Death March, Gen. Masaharu Homma, guilty of war crimes. He ...
The Bataan Death March saw thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops killed as they were forced to march ... 829 men of those men were killed either in the battle, prison camps or during the march.
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]
The memorial was dedicated on 12 April 1982 by the survivors of the Bataan Death March and the prisoner-of-war camp in Cabanatuan during World War II. [1] The memorial has been maintained by the American Battle Grounds Commission since 1989. [2] Prior to this, it was maintained by the American Battle Monuments Commission.
Apr. 9—The Bataan Death March is fading into a past growing more distant with each passing year. But many who attended a Tuesday ceremony in Santa Fe marking the 82nd anniversary of Bataan's ...
William Edwin Dyess (August 9, 1916 – December 22, 1943) was an officer of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. [1] He was captured after the Allied loss at the Battle of Bataan and endured the subsequent Bataan Death March.
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 ...