bATAAN dEATH maRCH

Basic Idea

• Occurred 4 months after Pearl Harbor. 
• American & Filipino POW- 50,000-70,000
• During WWll
• Began April 9, 1942

Camp O'donnell

• Approx. 54,000 men at camp
• No food, water, facilities to house them. 
• Forced to drink polluted water.
• 10,000 died early on. 
• 1600 Americans died, 10,000 Filipinos died.

CAmp

• At Camp O'Donnell sanitation was non-existent. 
• Dec. 1944, Japanese killed 139 P.O.W.-Palawan Massacre 
• Trying to prevent survivor stories. 
• Eleven Prisoners escaped. 

Conditions

• Heat
• Malaria 
• dehydration
• dysentary
• deprived of food and water

60 miles

• Soldiers were starving&dehydrated
• Forced to walk 60 miles in 2 weeks.
• Some dropped dead
• Others killed by Japanese along the way 
• Put in box cars. 

march continues

• Swim 2.5 miles 
• Shark infested waters.
• Dodge bullets by Japanese.

Invasion

• Japanese (1000) defeated 15,000 defenders 
• It wasn't a lack of numbers for surrender. 
• Men not in proper health / no weapons.

John E. Love

• 11 POW escaped-one was John E. Love.
• Death March ended April 15, 1942.
• One of the survivors, John E. Love, died at 91 recently.
• Was 19 during the Bataan Death March.
• Carried 1,000 bodies to graveyard.

vIDEO lINK

apology

• On May 9, Japan apologized to POW.
• Sept. 13, 2010 apologized to 6/11 for suffering.

Public

• Not until Jan. 27, 1944 U.S. gov't informed public.

Famous picture from March.

Memorials

• Across the US and Filipines there are memorials.
• Memorials for those who died/suffered in Death March.
• Many events that commemorate the Death March.

cites

• "ARMY.MIL Features." Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. Army. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2014.
• "Memorials to Bataan Death March Victims." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Mar. 2014. Web. 24 Mar. 2014.
• "Bataan Death March." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 23 Mar. 2014. Web. 24 Mar. 2014.