Bataan Death March

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Bataan Death March

• April 9, 1941

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This picture shows the men just after they were
captured.  The Japanese kept them in the hot sun
with no food or water before putting them on the
road to San Fernando
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Start of the Bataan Death March at Mariveles on
the tip of the Bataan Peninsula
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65 miles of hell.  This is a picture of the
prisoners on the Death March.  The guards were
changed every three hours but the men were
allowed little, if any, rest.
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If people would fall down and couldn't go any
further, the Japanese would either bayonet or
shoot them. They also would bayonet prisoners who
couldn't keep up.
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American POWs on the Death March being given a
break.  These breaks were often referred to as
the "sun treatment" because they were left
sitting in the sun, without water or shade, for
hours.
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On the first day, I saw two things I will never
forget. A Filipino man had been beheaded. His
body lay on the ground with blood everywhere.
His head was a short distance away.
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The Bataan Death March.  Here fellow prisoners
carry those too weak or injured to walk by
themselves.  To be left by the side of the road
was to be shot, bayoneted, or beheaded.
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During the day, at some point, the Japanese
would call a halt. We would go to an open field
and sit down. We just sat there, the hot sun
beating down on us like mad.After an hour or
so, they would get us up and we would start
walking again.
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Nearing the end of the Bataan Death March, a
thinning line of American and Filipino prisoners
of war carry casualties in improvised stretchers
as they approach Camp O'Donnell, a new Japanese
POW camp, in April 1942 during World War II. An
estimated 70,000 POWs were forced to march 55
miles to San Fernando, then taken by rail to
Capas, from where they walked the final 8 miles
to Camp O'Donnell. An estimated 10,000 men died
on the Death March from various causes including
sickness, beatings, exhaustion and those who fell
were bayoneted. Only 54,000 reached the camp.
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Camp O'Donnell - one of history's biggest death
factories.  More than 1,600 Americans and 10,000
Filipinos died here in the space of six weeks.  
There was little food, medicine, or water and
sanitation was non-existent
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Bilibid Prison Hospital.  The Japanese turned
this old Spanish prison into a hospital in name
only.  Some extra medicine and rations did get
through
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Drawing of Zero Ward by an American doctor.  The
men were brought to this ward to die during their
last hours.  Very, very few survived Zero Ward
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Living Skeletons - these prisoners have just been
rescued from Bilibid Prison in Manila in Feb.
1945 - average weight was 85 - 95 pounds