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Shootout! is a documentary series featured on the History Channel and ran for two seasons from 2005 to 2006. It depicts actual firefights between United States military personnel and other combatants.
Bataan Rescue is a 2003 television documentary film about the Raid at Cabanatuan (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Cabanatuan).Produced by PBS for the American Experience documentary program, it begins with the Fall of Bataan (Filipino: Pagsuko ng Bataan) in 1942 up to the titular event in January 1945, where more than 500 prisoners of war were liberated from a Japanese camp in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.
Dozens of documentaries have also featured stories from the Battle of Bataan including A Legacy of Heroes: The Story of Bataan and Corregidor (2003), Ghosts of Bataan (2005) and an episode of The History Channel series Shootout, entitled "Raid on the Bataan Death Camp" (2006).
On the grounds of an elementary school in a small Philippine village, the fuse was lit on one of the worst war crimes of the 20th century while at the same time setting in motion one of the ...
Edward Dmytryk's 1945 film Back to Bataan, starring John Wayne, opens by retelling the story of the raid on the Cabanatuan POW camp-with real life film of the POW survivors. In July 2003, the PBS documentary program American Experience aired an hour-long film about the raid, titled Bataan Rescue.
In December 1944, the Kempeitai massacre prisoners of war on Palawan.By 1945, American forces are closing in on the Japanese-occupied Philippines.The Japanese hold over 500 American prisoners who had survived the Bataan Death March in a notorious POW camp near Cabanatuan and subjected them to brutal treatment and summary execution, as the Japanese code of bushido viewed surrender as a disgrace.
Apr. 6—More than 1,800 New Mexicans fought the Japanese army in the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. In the end, after the infamous 65-mile Bataan Death March and years in prisoner of war ...
In 1988, Congress approved designating April 9 as Former Prisoners of War Day.. The day commemorates the April 9, 1942, surrender of more than 12,000 American troops and 66,000 Filipino soldiers ...