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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.
• An April 2015 obituary for Alcide “Bull” Sylvio Benini states that he arrived in the Philippines in June 1940 and was captured April 7, 1942. He survived the Bataan Death March, Japanese ...
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
Dyess was captured by the Japanese on April 9, 1942, north of Mariveles, Bataan, and the next morning, he and the others who surrendered at Bataan began the infamous Bataan Death March. [5]: 67–68 He was imprisoned at Camp O'Donnell and then, from June to 26 October 1942, at Cabanatuan.
Oldest Bataan Death March survivor had an "extra chapter" to his life, being able to share his story of faith and positivity with new generations Ben Skardon, oldest Bataan Death March survivor ...
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.
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
On April 9, 1942, approximately 76,000 Filipino and American troops surrendered to a Japanese army of 54,000 men under Lt. General Masaharu Homma. This was the single largest surrender of one of its military forces in American history. [11] Route of the Bataan Death March. The section from San Fernando to Capas was by rail. The prisoners ...