The Bataan Death march occurred in the Philippines and ended in Camp O'Donnell of the Philippines. Some POWs were taken to Japan.
Bataan Death March
The surrender of 75,000 Allied soldiers in the Philippines.The Bataan Death March resulted in the death of more than 7,000 American and Filipino troops who were forced to make a grueling journal after surrendering to Japanese troops.
As a result of the Bataan Death March, more than 7000 American and Filipino troops died.
Try a book titled: "Bataan Death March: A Survivor's Account", by William E. Dyess. (2002), ISBN 0-8032-6633-2.
This event was called the Bataan Death March.
Japanese soldiers forced their American prisoners to undergo the Bataan Death March.
Filipino and American soldiers whom were prisoners of the Japanese
many American prisoners were killed.
Death March Bataan Death March or Death March of Bataan because they were marched across the penisular of Bataan.
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The US soldiers that they had defeated on the Phillipines.
The American and Philippino soldiers marched from Corregidor across the Bataan peninsula did so with insufficient amounts of food, medicine, water and rest, and were subject to death by bayonet at the whim of their captors for any or no apparent reason.
The Bataan Death March. The Filipino troops who fought alongside the Americans and were captured with them actually fared even worse on the Death March.
The surrender of 75,000 Allied soldiers in the Philippines.The Bataan Death March resulted in the death of more than 7,000 American and Filipino troops who were forced to make a grueling journal after surrendering to Japanese troops.
General MacArthur was ordered move his command from the Philippines to Australia, and left thousands of his American and Filipino troops behind without supplies. Abandoned troops surrendered at Bataan in April and at Corregidor in May. The Japanese forced these POW's to march to a prison camp near Cabunatuan. Thousands of American and Filipino soldiers died of malnutrition, illness, and torture during the Bataan Death March.:-)