Class Notes

What became known as the Bataan Death March in the Philippines was the Japanese forcing 70,000 American prisoners to march more than 60 miles without food or water. The prisoners were already malnourished and those who could not make the march or could not keep up were killed. Along the way the prisoners suffered from hunger, abuse, and disease to the point that 7,000 American prisoners died on the march.

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