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The Bataan Death March.
The Bataan Death march occurred in the Philippines and ended in Camp O'Donnell of the Philippines. Some POWs were taken to Japan.
As a result of the Bataan Death March, more than 7000 American and Filipino troops died.
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Bataan Death March
The Philippines
The Philippines , once a US possession , was the place where the infamous Bataan Death March (1942) occurred .
The Bataan Death March.
The Bataan Death march occurred in the Philippines and ended in Camp O'Donnell of the Philippines. Some POWs were taken to Japan.
The Bataan Death March was not a battle. It was a forced death march, e.g. being forced to march at least 80 miles under extreme conditions. Over 10,000 soldiers died during The Bataan Death March.
The Bataan death march, and the Dachau death march, were two separate events. The first was in the Philippines and was perpetrated by the Japanese, and the second was in Germany.
NovaNET Answer: American and filipino prisoners were forced to walk through the jungle to a prison, and many thousands died along the way.During World War II, the Bataan Death March occurred in 1942 after Japanese troops occupied the Philippines. It received its name from the area in which the march (mainly) occurred -- the Bataan Peninsula -- and from the number of deaths that it caused among the wounded and under-nourished (and simply fatigued) Allied soldiers involved in it.
many American prisoners were killed.
Men who were on the Bataan Death March during WW2.
The Bataan Death March refers to the forced relocation of nearly 80,000 United States and Filipino prisoners of war from Mariveles, Bataan, to San Fernando, Pampanga in the Philippines. During this forced march, about 10,000 Filipino and 650 US soldiers died from a combination of neglect and outright abuse.
The Bataan Death March was wholly negative .
No, the Bataan Death March occured in the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean.