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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.
Surrender of American troops at Corregidor American and Filipino prisoners, captured at Corregidor, arrive at Bilibid prison by foot and truck as Japanese look on, 25 May 1942. Unlike the Filipinos and Americans on Bataan who surrendered to the Japanese forces, the Prisoners of War (POWs) in Corregidor were not subjected by the death march.
Of the 1,816 200 th and 515 th Coast Artillery men identified at Bataan, 829 men of those men were killed either in the battle, prison camps or during the march. How is the Bataan Death March ...
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
American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese are shown at the start of the Death March after the surrender of Bataan on April 9 near Mariveles in the Philippines in 1942 during ...
The day is officially celebrated every April 9, the start of the Bataan Death March, although the date was moved on several occasions to avoid it from coinciding with the observance of the Holy Week in the country, especially the Easter Triduum and Easter Sunday, such as in 2004, 2009, 2020, and 2023. [1] [2] [3]
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 ...
American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor: 1, 6–7, 9–11, 13–15. September 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Condon-Rall, Mary Ellen; Cowdrey, Albert E. (1998). The Technical Services—The Medical Department: Medical Service In The War Against Japan. United States Army In World War II.