as of February 2012 there are 9 still alive.. 5 in Washington state 1 in Utah 1 in Oklahoma 2 in Savannah, Georgia and 1 in Iowa. On August 31, 2012, one of the last survivors, Senior Master Sergent Thomas Louis Davis died in his sleep and at home near his wife Rose. Tom was 90 years old. He had suffered greatly from his POW years, but died a great man with a Bronze Star and 2 clusters as well as a Purple Heart. Another of the survivors in Savannah died last winter.
Update as of 03/15/17
There is an additional Survivor who is 99 yrs old and lives in NM.
It is said that only 8 people were rescued after they were sent to a POW camp
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9921 Americans started the march, 650 did not survive. At the end of the war the number of survivor's from Bataan range from 1300 - 3000. We started the war with 31,095 soldier's in the Philippines.
If you want to read some books on Bataan try "Bataan: The March of Death" by Stanley Falk. Another book that touches on Bataan, the Death March, hell ships and POW camps is "The Hike into the Sun" by Bernard FitzPatrick. A difficult and fairly expensive book to find. You can sign up to eKindle on Amazon and buy the download to your computer for $9.99. Also, try the library, you may get lucky.
A very good website is www.proviso.k12.il.us/Bataan%20Web/ MANY other sites link to this or put info on their site which came from here.
My father was on the death march. The info in the sources listed above matches up with the info he passed on to my brother and I. Appreciate you interest in Bataan.
At least 16,000 of the original 70,000 American and Phillipinio POWs were casualties in the march.
it was over 25 miles long. with non stoping and very little food and water
54,000 of the 72,000 prisoners survived the march
It was about 6 days April 3 1942 to April 15 1942 but the war itself lasted about 5 months from January 7Th to April 9Th after the Bataan death march was the corrgidor war.
How many people were in the Bataan Death March?
about 10000 Americans and about 45000 Filipinos.
78,000 soldiers took place it in. 5,000-10,000 Filipinos were killed and 600-650 Americans.
The Bataan Death March.
As a result of the Bataan Death March, more than 7000 American and Filipino troops died.
It was in Bataan in the Philippines.
Americans and Filipinos
Sadly there are not living survivors of Bataan. But a very good site is, American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, www.west-point.org/family/adbc.htmlAnswerUp until last Tuesday, there was at least one survivor of the Bataan Death March. William Sniezko died last Tuesday in Eugene, OR. His family said he was the last survivor but I don't have any confirmation of that. **Actually that was an error the funeral home made in giving information to the press - should have been 'one of the last'. Although the number of survivors is rapidly dwindling.AnswerOn a sad note, Gordon V Stoddard, one of the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, passed away Dec 21 in Sacramento Calif. For additional information, email his son at dave@dvssys.com.
The Bataan Death March was wholly negative .
No, the Bataan Death March occured in the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean.
78,000 soldiers took place it in. 5,000-10,000 Filipinos were killed and 600-650 Americans.
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.
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