Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 752 views

    Bataan Death March

    Uploaded by

    Hasz Ronquillo
    The Bataan Death March occurred in April 1942 after the surrender of 75,000 Filipino and American troops on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines to the Japanese during World War II. The surrendered troops were forced to make a 65-mile march to prisoner of war camps in intense heat, receiving harsh treatment from their Japanese captors along the way. Thousands perished during the march or soon after due to brutality, starvation, disease and mistreatment. After the war, the commander of the Japanese invasion forces was tried for war crimes and executed for his role in the death march.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Bataan Death March

    Uploaded by

    Hasz Ronquillo
    752 views1 page
    The Bataan Death March occurred in April 1942 after the surrender of 75,000 Filipino and American troops on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines to the Japanese during World War II. The surrendered troops were forced to make a 65-mile march to prisoner of war camps in intense heat, receiving harsh treatment from their Japanese captors along the way. Thousands perished during the march or soon after due to brutality, starvation, disease and mistreatment. After the war, the commander of the Japanese invasion forces was tried for war crimes and executed for his role in the death march.

    Original Description:

    Bataan Death March

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The Bataan Death March occurred in April 1942 after the surrender of 75,000 Filipino and American troops on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines to the Japanese during World War II. The surrendered troops were forced to make a 65-mile march to prisoner of war camps in intense heat, receiving harsh treatment from their Japanese captors along the way. Thousands perished during the march or soon after due to brutality, starvation, disease and mistreatment. After the war, the commander of the Japanese invasion forces was tried for war crimes and executed for his role in the death march.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    752 views1 page

    Bataan Death March

    Uploaded by

    Hasz Ronquillo
    The Bataan Death March occurred in April 1942 after the surrender of 75,000 Filipino and American troops on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines to the Japanese during World War II. The surrendered troops were forced to make a 65-mile march to prisoner of war camps in intense heat, receiving harsh treatment from their Japanese captors along the way. Thousands perished during the march or soon after due to brutality, starvation, disease and mistreatment. After the war, the commander of the Japanese invasion forces was tried for war crimes and executed for his role in the death march.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as docx, pdf, or txt
    of 1

    BATAAN DEATH MARCH

    After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of
    Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and
    American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.
    The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by
    Japanese guards. Thousands perished in what became known as the Bataan Death March.

    BATAAN DEATH MARCH: BACKGROUND

    The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, the
    Japanese invasion of the Philippines began. Within a month, the Japanese had captured Manila,
    the capital of the Philippines, and the American and Filipino defenders of Luzon (the island on
    which Manila is located) were forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. For the next three
    months, the combined U.S.-Filipino army held out despite a lack of naval and air support.
    Finally, on April 9, with his forces crippled by starvation and disease, U.S. General Edward King
    Jr. (1884-1958), surrendered his approximately 75,000 troops at Bataan.

    BATAAN DEATH MARCH: APRIL 1942

    The surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded up by the Japanese and forced to
    march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, to San
    Fernando. The men were divided into groups of approximately 100, and what became known as
    the Bataan Death March typically took each group around five days to complete. The exact
    figures are unknown, but it is believed that thousands of troops died because of the brutality of
    their captors, who starved and beat the marchers, and bayoneted those too weak to walk.
    Survivors were taken by rail from San Fernando to prisoner-of-war camps, where thousands
    more died from disease, mistreatment and starvation.

    BATAAN DEATH MARCH: AFTERMATH

    America avenged its defeat in the Philippines with the invasion of the island of Leyte in October
    1944. General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), who in 1942 had famously promised to return
    to the Philippines, made good on his word. In February 1945, U.S.-Filipino forces recaptured the
    Bataan Peninsula, and Manila was liberated in early March.

    After the war, an American military tribunal tried Lieutenant General Homma Masaharu,
    commander of the Japanese invasion forces in the Philippines. He was held responsible for the
    death march, a war crime, and was executed by firing squad on April 3, 1946.

    You might also like