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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.
24 paź 2024 · Bataan Death March, march in the Philippines of some 66 miles that 76,000 prisoners of war were forced by the Japanese military to endure in April 1942, during the early stages of World War II. Learn more about the lead-up to the march, details of it, and its significance in this article.
Bataański marsz śmierci (ang. Bataan Death March, jap. バターン死の行進; Batān Shi no Kōshin, fil. Martsa ng Kamatayan sa Bataan) – przymusowa ewakuacja około 76–78 tys. jeńców wojennych przeprowadzona przez Cesarską Armię Japońską w kwietniu 1942 roku, w czasie wojny na Pacyfiku, po kapitulacji amerykańsko - filipińskiego garnizonu na półwyspie Bataan.
9 lis 2009 · In the Bataan Death March, about 75,000 Filipino and American troops on the Bataan Peninsula on the Philippine island of Luzon were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.
3 kwi 2024 · A post-war trial would find the Japanese commander in the Battle of Bataan and the man responsible for the troops that carried out the Death March, Gen. Masaharu Homma, guilty of war crimes.
31 mar 2022 · The Bataan Death March was an atrocity perpetrated by the Imperial Japanese Army on Allied POWs in the Philippine Commonwealth from April 9 until April 15, 1942.
24 paź 2024 · The story of the Bataan Death March has come to dominate the role that the Philippines played in World War II. The Japanese military had forced marches in other places it had conquered, and it worked to death thousands of British, Dutch, and Australian prisoners of war, but those atrocities did not make headlines until later.
