Yes. 76,000 Allied Troops surrendered to the Japanese on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9th, 1942.
As a result of the Bataan Death March, more than 7000 American and Filipino troops died.
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.
American and Filipino troops retreated to Bataan.
Douglas MacArthur
It happened on the Bataan Peninsula.
General Douglas MacArthur.
Yes. 76,000 Allied Troops surrendered to the Japanese on the Bataan Peninsula on April 9th, 1942.
General Douglas MacArthur
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.:-)
The Bataan Death march was a forced march of mostly American prisoners of war by the Japanese. Several thousand of the men died of exhaustion and thirst on the brutal trek in April of 1942.
As a result of the Bataan Death March, more than 7000 American and Filipino troops died.
As a result of the Bataan Death March, more than 7000 American and Filipino troops died.
As a result of the Bataan Death March, more than 7000 American and Filipino troops died.
The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan)
The Australin troops landed on the peninsula by going in boats.
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.