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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).
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.
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.
Prisoners of war are seen during the Bataan Death March. John Leroy Mims Aberdeen resident John Leroy Mims was 18 years old when he fought the Japanese in the Philippines, according to a November ...
On January 30, 1945, during World War II, United States Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas attacked the camp and liberated more than 500 prisoners. After the surrender of tens of thousands of American troops during the Battle of Bataan, many were sent to the Cabanatuan prison camp after the Bataan Death March. The Japanese ...
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 ...
The Battle for the Recapture of Bataan (Filipino: Labanan para sa Bataan) from 31 January to 21 February 1945, by US forces and Allied Filipino guerrillas from the Japanese, part of the campaign for the liberation of the Philippines, was waged to secure the western shore of Manila Bay to enable the use of its harbor and open new supply lines for American troops engaged in the crucial battle ...
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 ...