The original
photo was recovered from a Japanese P.O.W.
THE DEATH MARCH
FROM MARIVELES TO CAPAS, TARLAC Early
in April 1942, disease, starvation, and heavy gunfires weared down the
Filipino and American defenders in Bataan. The Bataan defenders surrendered
to the superior Japanese forces on April 9, 1942. The 12,000 U.S.troops
and about 64,000 Filipino soldiers who had survived in the fighting had
more sufferings to follow in the next 52 miles trek from Mariveles to San
Fernando, Pampanga on their way to prison camp in Capas, Tarlac. More than
9,000 died during the ordeal. The Japanese were brutal and inhumane treatment
of prisoners of war (P.O.W.)
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