The Bataan Death March.
The Bataan Death March was used to arouse fury in the minds of the people of the United States. This march showed Japans brutality and militarism in a negative way and created more tension between the Japanese and the Americans. This hatred made the Americans more determined against the Japanese in the Second World War.
Americans and Filipinos
It was in Bataan in the Philippines.
Bataan Death March
It was the Bataan Death March where the Japanese marched Americans and Filipino troops that they had captured through a jungle to a prison. Over 7,000 of the men died on the march.
The Bataan Death March.
Allied prisoners, mostly American were marched several hundred miles by the Japanese.
The Japanese....
The 'Bataan Death March' consisted of Americans and Filipino combatants who after surrendering to the Japanese were force marched into the interior of the Philippines without water , food and medical attention . The result was that hundreds were killed by bayonet who could no longer march or died from abuse by Japanese guards and lack of water and medical assistance . Six to eleven thousand died from Japanese neglect and brutality .
The Bataan Death March was used to arouse fury in the minds of the people of the United States. This march showed Japans brutality and militarism in a negative way and created more tension between the Japanese and the Americans. This hatred made the Americans more determined against the Japanese in the Second World War.
The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan)
Japanese soldiers forced their American prisoners to undergo the Bataan Death March.
Japanese Samurai thinking already considered a soldier that surrendered in battle to effectively be dead, so how did it matter how they treated them. That was also why the Japanese generally did not surrender, they expected to be treated no better by the Americans.
Americans and Filipinos
The Bataan death march, and the Dachau death march, were two separate events. The first was in the Philippines and was perpetrated by the Japanese, and the second was in Germany.
Filipino and American soldiers whom were prisoners of the Japanese