U.S. Army National Guard and Filipino soldiers shown at the outset of the Bataan Death March. Allied forces were forced to surrender to the Japanese on April 9, 1942, the largest surrender in U.S ...
The museum will showcase flags central to the liberation of American soldiers who were kept prisoners of war following the ...
An exhibition and film screening honor the soldiers who endured the Bataan Death March and the scars — and legacies — they ...
The Japanese invaded the Philippines soon after ... to replicate what the troops might have carried during the Bataan Death March in 1942. Military registrants wear their uniforms along the ...
After all, they had all seen acts of Japanese brutality firsthand. Many had been through the infamous death march — where the Japanese army had marched an estimated 72,000 Americans and ...
While the Japanese pounded Corregidor (which would surrender on May 6), they led their prisoners on a forced march out of Bataan. Before the "Death March" was over, those who survived would march ...