Why did they have the Death March in the Philippines during WWII?

Question

I'm trying to find more information about the death march in the Philippines during WWII from those who where part of it or had family that was in it.

Answer 1

The Japanese needed to move the American and Filipino POW's from the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidore Island to the POW camps in Pampanga, north of Manila. There were no trucks so them moved them on foot. Thousands of Filipinos and Americans were murdered along the way.

Answer 2

You need the book "Give Us This Day" by Sidney Stewart. It is an older book (1962) but now in paperback by a survivor of the "death march." I tried to get my great uncle, army Sargent Al Pussard, to talk about it, but he never did. (He passed away on December 18, 1999, joyful that he had outlived Hirohito).

Many veterans are reluctant to talk about their experiences. As one Vietnam vet told me, "In order to talk about the war I would have to think about the war, and I am not sure I want to do that."

Answer 3

approximately fifty 5,000 Filipino and us of a squaddies, commanded via significant customary Edward "Ned" P. King have been formally surrendered to the jap, decrease than customary Masaharu Homma, on April 9, 1942. This required Japan to settle for emaciated captives who outnumbered them. the jap, having predicted the combating to proceed longer, had not predicted this many prisoners and did not have the centers to handle them. day after at present, the prisoners have been compelled to start a grueling 3 day adventure approximately one hundred kilometers to the north, to Camp O'Donnell, a detention center camp in Tarlac province. They marched maximum of that distance, whether for a small distance they have been transported packed into railroad automobiles. Prisoners of warfare have been crushed randomly, and have been in many circumstances denied nutrition and water for various days. Many have been tortured to dying. people who fell at the back of have been many times achieved by various potential: shot, beheaded or bayoneted. the generally-used "solar scientific care" compelled a captive to take a seat silently in the humid April solar with out water or perhaps the coloration of his helmet. meanwhile, Allied forces someplace else in the Philippines fought on, and the column of prisoners marching from Bataan replace into packed into boxcars to return and forth from San Fernando to Capas, the form of prisoners replace into extra diminished via malaria, warmth, dehydration and dysentery.

Answer 4

Below are good websites to start with.

There is also a book on the subject:
Bataan:The March of Death - by Stanley Falk

-Good Luck...

Answer 5

Was that the Baton death march or is there more? I think it was to move prisoners. But they didn't care if you were injured or didn't have food, rest. Real savages.

Answer 6

http://www.fourthmarinesband.com/march.htm


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