Good question. The Americans had retreated to the southern tip of Bataan before they surrendered. The Japenese didn't have trucks or trains to transport the prisoners back up to Manilia area where there was a good port (or didn't want to spend the assets to do so). The Japanese did not have sufficient food supplies and they knew that would be a problem. They forced the Americans to march the long route anyway and many died or fell out of line and were executed. It should not have happened if they Japanese had complied with the Geneva Convention for the treatment of prisoners of war.
Captured Allied soldiers were forced to march with little food, rest or medical attention by Japan's soldiers. Bataan was notable for the long distance, lack of food, and cruel teatment at the hands of the Japanese. Any POW who could not keep up was usually executed or left to die.
The purpose was to march the POW's to a prison camp,
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
The Bataan Death march occurred in the Philippines and ended in Camp O'Donnell of the Philippines. Some POWs were taken to Japan.
april 9 1942
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.
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The Bataan Death March.