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.
Bataan is a Philippine province , the Bataan Death March was named for this province , where the infamous march started .
The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan)
Bataan Death March
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.
You need to know which Army unit Mr. Hays served in and if he served in the Philippines.You can contact the Bataan Memorial Death March people at the site below. The people in Bataan do have a computer database of the march participants. Contact the people on this web site.Click on the links below especially the Bataan Memorial Death March site.
April 9, 1945 marked the day the POWs from the Bataan Death March were rescued.
The Bataan Death March.
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The Bataan Death March was wholly negative .
No, the Bataan Death March occured in the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean.
The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan)
Japanese soldiers forced their American prisoners to undergo the Bataan Death March.
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Bataan Death March
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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.
Death March Bataan Death March or Death March of Bataan because they were marched across the penisular of Bataan.
You need to know which Army unit Mr. Hays served in and if he served in the Philippines.You can contact the Bataan Memorial Death March people at the site below. The people in Bataan do have a computer database of the march participants. Contact the people on this web site.Click on the links below especially the Bataan Memorial Death March site.