We will never forget what happened to us on the March of Death on Bataan, but we must face the reality that we were part of the United States military, dedicated to protect our country at all costs.
The number that actually started the infamous Bataan Death March has been estimated at 65,000 Filipino military, 28,000 civilians and 12,000 Americans.
Most of the 80,000 prisoners of war captured by the Japanese at Bataan were forced to undertake the infamous"Death March" to a prison camp 105 kilometers to the north.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East(IMTFE), the Pacific War's equivalent of the Nuremburg trials formally established the general extent and kind of atrocities committed by Japanese troops but did not fully determine all ofthe causes that contributed to the Death March.
POW History Show-- Slide 09 One of the most horrendous events that American and Filipino POWs had to endure was the Bataan"Death March"-- some had to walk 70 miles, and some 10,000 died from sickness… or execution.
What made him decide to write about his post-war experience of exhuming bodies of American soldiers who died on the Bataan Death March, many of whom he knew personally, was an article published in Japan that claimed that the Bataan DeathMarch had never happened.
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