Bataan Death March
Date: April 1942
Ended:April 18, 1942.
Key Figure Involved - American and and Japanese were both involve in this march
Place - Bataan Peninusla
Facts
Ended:April 18, 1942.
Key Figure Involved - American and and Japanese were both involve in this march
Place - Bataan Peninusla
Facts
- After Japan had bomb the harbor on December 8 American and Filipino troop held out on the Bataan Peninsula under Japanese control then stated to turned attention to securing the Philippines.
- The Bataan Death March began on April 10, 1942, when the Japanese assembled about 78,000 prisoners (12,000 U.S. and 66,000 Filipino). They began marching up the east coast of Bataan. Although they didn't know it, their destination was Camp O'Donnell, north of the peninsula.
- During the Death Marchers prisoners received almost no water or food, further weakening their fragile bodies. Most POW's only received a total of a few cups of rice, and little or no water. Sympathetic Filipinos alongside the road tried to give POW's food and water, but if a guard saw it, the POW and the Filipino helper could be beaten or killed. Some POW's had the water in their canteens poured out onto the road or taken by the Japanese just to be cruel. Although thirst began to drive some of the men mad, if a POW's broke ranks to drink stagnant, muddy water at the side of the road, he would be bayoneted or shot.
- On April 1942 most of the Bataan defender surrender and American and Filipino were as prisoner.
- During the March many prisoner were treated brutally also at lest 10,000 prisoners died during the 6 to 12 day march as while doing this Japanese navy control the water off Manila, cutting off all efforts to resupply American forces so the American had not help and food supplies were reduce to little or nothing.
- The brutality of Japaneses soldier in Bataan defied accept international standard know as the Geneva Convention "Prisoner of War".
- Significance Of The War - it had allot of casualties and it was kinda like what Hitler did because he made the Jew as there prisoner and what the worse time for Jew and Americans and Philippines. Also It resulted from the largest surrender in American history but in the total scheme of the war was only important from a propaganda point of view.The American military has been very good at turning defeats on the battlefield into propaganda victories.The death march stirred up the American populace against the Japanese who were undeniably cruel anyway.It is a fact the Americans fought harder against the Japanese than either the Germans or Italians.The treachery of Pearl Harbor and the cruelty of Bataan accounted for this attitude of Americans toward Japan.
- Advantage For American - were nothing because they were prisoner for Japaneses and were treated brutally.
- Advantage for Japanese - were lot of thing because the captured American solders and became power full and won that battle.
- Disadvantage for Americans- were that they couldn't defeat them selves so they were capture and tuned into prisoner and were force to follow japans orders, and Japanese soldiers were forced to march or be beaten or shot by Americans guards. American soldiers were forced to march or be beaten or shot by Japanese guards.
- Disadvantages for Japaneses - were none because they were become more powerful controlling American and Filipino.
- Outcome- no one really won but the Japanese was winning in the begging but that followed the barbarity of the Bataan Death March, during with thousands of U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war died as a result of their captors' merciless brutality. Worse still, the majority of those who survived the March later perished in transit on "hell ships" to Japan or in POW camps. So no one really one because all the American died and all the Japanese lost there prisoners. around 26,000 of the 50,000 Filipino Prisoners of War there had died. and about 7000 and 10000 men died.
Bataan Death March Map
This is a map were the Bataan Death March was at in the 1942
(Graham, Vickie M. "The King of Diamonds." Airman. June 1995: 40-43. SIRS Government Reporter. Web. 11 Mar 2013.)
James Bollich, World War II veteran and Bataan Death March survivor, stands in his home next to a framed American flag that his grandson, an Airman, had flown over a U.S. military installation in his honor. Bollich spent three and a half years a prisoner of war in Manchuria from 1942 until the end of WWII. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kate Blais) (http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123308539). Web. Mar 12 2013.