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The Bataan Death March[ a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 [ 1] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando . The transfer began on 9 April 1942 after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines ...
The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of 2,434 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II at the Sandakan POW Camp, North Borneo. [1] By the end of the war, of all the prisoners who had been ...
The Bataan Death March Memorial Monument, erected in April 2001, is the only monument funded by the U.S. federal government dedicated to the victims of the Bataan Death March during World War II. The memorial was designed and sculpted by Las Cruces artist Kelley Hester and is located in Veterans Park along Roadrunner Parkway in New Mexico. [26]
The main feature of the Bataan World War II Museum behind Balanga Elementary School is a life-size diorama of the surrender of the US forces in the Philippines to Japanese commanders on April 9, 1942.
More: World War II veteran honored in Carlsbad About 75,000 allied U.S. and Filipino troops surrendered to Japan on April 9, 1942 after seven months of conflict at the peninsula. What happened to ...
Battle of Corregidor. The Battle of Corregidor ( Filipino: Labanan sa Corregidor; Japanese: コレヒドールの戦い ), fought on 5–6 May 1942, was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II . The fall of Bataan on 9 April 1942 ended all organized opposition by the ...
Taiwan Army of Japan. 14th Army. Masaharu Homma (本間 雅晴, Honma Masaharu, November 27, 1887 – April 3, 1946) was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Homma commanded the Japanese 14th Army, which invaded the Philippines and perpetrated the Bataan Death March. After the war, Homma was convicted of war ...
Louis Morton, US Army in World War II: The War in the Pacific--The Fall of the Philippines (United States Army Center of Military History, 1952) "A Tribute to Our Nurses" (PDF). The Quan. 58 (2). American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor: 1, 6–7, 9–11, 13–15. September 2003. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016.