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After the Japanese initial expansion into the Pacific islands, nearly 50,000 troops were landed onto the Philippines. These men were better trained and better equipped than the larger American and Philippines coalition forces that tried to defend. Having to fight deep into the allied lines, the Japanese POW's of some 100,000 American and Filipinos were forced back to Japanese camps. The march was through harsh terrain in which the prisoners' misery was augmented by lack of water and branded Japanese culture of no-surrender.
There were about 80,000 Allied personnel who were Prisoners of War of the Japanese. This included about 12,000 Americans and 68,000 Filipinos. The exact death toll in unknown, because the Japanese did not care how many were killed and kept no records. Any guard who felt like doing so was free to kill any handy prisoner. These men had been on short rations, while trying to fight, for months, and were in poor condition. The Japanese would allow them no water. Anyone who fell out was killed, usually bayoneted or beheaded. Any civilian Filipino trying to give food or water to the prisoners was also killed. As many as 24,000 were killed, based on analysis of the number surrendered compared to the number reaching their destinations. The Japanese ambassador actually finally apologized in May, 2009, and I for one could not possibly be more astonished. The Japanese are PROUD of their record of wartime barbarity. The difference between the Germans and the Japanese is that the Germans are ashamed of their war criminals.
During World War Two the Japanese originally overran American and Philipino forces in the Philipine Islands. The prisoners they took, American and Philipino were forced to march to Bataan to a prison camp there. The Japanese guards were viscious and beat several prisoners to death and allowed others to perish from injuries or wounds. Estimates of actual numbers of dead are all over the place because good records were not kept. A significant number died during the march and many others died shortly after arriving at the camp of injuries suffered during the march.
Between 600 and 700 Americans died and 5,000 to 10,000 Philipinos died.
the Japanese lead the Bataan Death March. The march began on April 9, 1942 and over 10,000 prisoners of war died before they were able to arrive at Camp O'Donnell.
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Death March during Japanese period?
The Bataan Death March.
What resulted from the bataan death march?
As a result of the Bataan Death March, more than 7000 American and Filipino troops died.
Site of the famous Japanese death march?
It was in Bataan in the Philippines.
Who were the prisoner of war who were forced to march in the Bataan death march?
Americans and Filipinos
Where were American soldiers subjected to the horrifying bataan death march?
The Bataan Death march occurred in the Philippines and ended in Camp O'Donnell of the Philippines. Some POWs were taken to Japan.
Did the bataan death march create a positive or negative thing?
The Bataan Death March was wholly negative .
Was the Bataan Death March ended in Italy?
No, the Bataan Death March occured in the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean.
What march was named for the deaths of Filipino and American troops by the Japanese?
The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan)
Who committed the bataan death march?
Japanese soldiers forced their American prisoners to undergo the Bataan Death March.
What is the pilgrimage of death by manuel bernabe?
All about the bataan death
What was the death March in the Philippines called?
Bataan Death March
What month was the bataan death march in?
march
What type of battle was The Bataan Death March?
The Bataan Death March was not a battle. It was a forced death march, e.g. being forced to march at least 80 miles under extreme conditions. Over 10,000 soldiers died during The Bataan Death March.
What was the march named for the horrible deaths of Filipino and American troops by the Japanese soldiers on their way to prison camps called?
Death March Bataan Death March or Death March of Bataan because they were marched across the penisular of Bataan.
What was the name of the forced death march in the Philippines?
The Bataan Death March.
Death March during Japanese period?
The Bataan Death March.
When was the Death March In Bataan?
1942
