What was the length of the Bataan Death March?

Question

I have researched it and gotten different answers which were 60, 72, 80, 90 and 100 miles. Does anyone know the real length?

Wikipedia is not always right though. Does anyone have another source?

Answer 1

There were different distances according to where the soldiers were picked up along the way. They didn't all start out at the same place. My cousin was there too and he says the following quote from a website is correct. He was captured on Corregidor.

The Bataan Death March began at Mariveles on April 10, 1942. Any troops who fell behind were executed. Japanese troops beat soldiers randomly, and denied the POWs food and water for many days. One of their tortures was known as the sun treatment. The Philippines in April is very hot. Therefore, the POWs were forced to sit in the sun without any shade, helmets, or water. Anyone who dared ask for water was executed. On the rare occasion they were given any food, it was only a handful of contaminated rice. When the prisoners were allowed to sleep for a few hours at night, they were packed into enclosures so tight that they could barely move. Those who lived collapsed on the dead bodies of their comrades. For only a brief part of the march would POWs be packed into railroad cars and allowed to ride. Those who did not die in the suffocating boxcars were forced to march about seven more miles until they reached their camp. It took the POWs over a week to reach their destination. Those on Corregidor would suffer the same fate as their fellow soldiers on Bataan did as they too were transferred to Bataan.

This site has a map of the march.
http://www.bataansurvivor.
com/images/map.jpg

Answer 2

60 miles

Answer 3

60 miles / 97 kilometers, per wikikpedia.

Answer 4

my great uncle was there and he would never speak of the horror of it. Only recently have I found out what truly happened there and its so Sad