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Bataan Death March |
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Bataan Death March(April 1942) Forced march of 70,000 U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. From the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, the starving and ill-treated prisoners were force-marched 63 mi (101 km) to a prison camp. Only 54,000 prisoners lived to reach the camp; up to 10,000 died on the way and others escaped in the jungle. In 1946 the Japanese commander of the march was convicted by a U.S. military commission and executed. |
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| We woke up extra early (for us), and went on a Bataan Death March of Roman tourism that went from the Vatican, through St Peter's Basilica, the Panthenon, Trevi Fountain and the ruins of the ancient city to the Colosseum with nothing but ice cream and beer to sustain us. He escaped the infamous Bataan Death March in which thousands of captured soldiers died as they were marched to prison camps. There he is captured by the Japanese and becomes part of the Bataan Death March. |
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