As prisoners of war (POWs ... pack intended to replicate what the troops might have carried during the Bataan Death March in 1942. Military registrants wear their uniforms along the route ...

A burial detail of American and Filipino prisoners of war uses improvised litters to carry fallen comrades at Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, 1942, following the Bataan Death March. Photo courtesy ...

For the most part, the Bataan prisoners came from small-town America. Those who survived the prison camps, the hell ships, and slave labor camps returned to live in small towns as well.

Within hours of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor bombs rained down on US and Filipino forces in the Philippines After months of vicious fighting Allied forces surrendered on the island only to ...

The POWS were forced to make the 65-mile Bataan Death March before being held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp #1. Over 2,500 POWs died at this camp during the war. According to prison camp and other ...

April 9: U.S. surrenders Luzon. Bataan death march: the Japanese march prisoners of war five to nine days north to Camp O'Donnell. May 6: U.S. surrenders their last stronghold, the island of ...

Having survived a death march from Bataan Col. Jessup is put into a POW camp run by the enemy. She and her fellow prisoners struggle for survival, working 14 hour days with limited food and no ...