This is the
Bataan peninsula, after all, the final battleground before Filipino and American soldierssurrendered to Japanese forces, the site of the atrocious Death March, the setting of 150 days of hell, as one war veteran called the misery they endured as they fought to delay the advancing of the Japanese invasion from Jan.
The said project strengthens the power transmission and enables the dispatch of the full capacity of existing and incoming generating plants, including the 600-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant in Limay,
Bataan.
Starving and sick, Filipinos and Americans were forced to march from Mariveles in
Bataan all the way to the city of Capas which is in Tarlac.
Craddock (a professional artist and International Montessori teacher, is the daughter of Ross Hofmann), "Escape from
Bataan: Memoir of a U.S.
Word never made it home that he had actually survived the blast and been taken prisoner by Japan during the surrender of
Bataan. "My dad had heard over the radio that I was still alive in Japan," Bergbower said.
CS2 Joshua Skinner, USS
Bataan (LHD 5) Junior Sailor of the Year, from 1 January to 31 December 2012.
Bataan's Safety Department received training on nearly 30 different OSHA-mandated safety topics--including fire, confined spaces, off-duty and recreational safety and mishap investigation--to obtain the certification.
Bataan transited the Suez Canal to enter the 5th Fleet area of operations, relieving the Boxer (LHD 4) ARG on 20 June.
Paul Kerchum of Benson, Arizona, a
Bataan survivor, who served with B Co, 31st Infantry Battalion, had this to say, "10,000 men died on that hot, dusty road.