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Bataan Death March

Bataan Death March. By Cadet allen.

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Bataan Death March

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  1. Bataan Death March By Cadet allen

  2. In late 1941, Japan simultaneously invaded several southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines. Most of the Filipino and United States forces defending the country were rapidly overrun or forced to retreat. A significant proportion of the Allied forces made a stand on the Bataan Peninsula. (The pronunciation of the place name used in English is buh-TAHN.)

  3. Meanwhile, Allied forces elsewhere in the Philippines fought on, and the column of prisoners marching from Bataan was accidentally shelled by US guns defending Corregidor. Packed into boxcars to travel from San Fernando to Capes, the number of prisoners was further diminished by malaria, heat, dehydration and dysentery. U.S. prisoners on Bataan sorting equipment while Japanese guards look on.

  4. This is The infamous Death March from Bataan in 1942. it is showing prisoners carrying comrades who dropped along the way.”

  5. One man fell from exhaustion and was then flattened by a tank. as all the other troops witnessed this horrible action, other soldiers were hit by Japanese trucks passing by.

  6. The Japanese soldiers used live prisoners for bayonet practice

  7. The Bataan Death March-the end of the road

  8. The End

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