How many survivors of the Bataan death march are still living?
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.