The Bataan Death March took place in the Phillipines in 1942 and was later accounted as Japanese war crime. The 60 mile march occurred after the 2 month Battle of Bataan part of the Battle of the Philippines during WWII. The march or forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipno prisioners charactarized by the wide range physical abuse and murder,& resulted in very high fatalities upon prisioners & civilians by the armed forces of Japan. Beheading,throat cutting and shooting were common,in addition to death by bayonet,rape disembowelment, rifle butt beating and deliberate starving or dehydration of the week long continual march in the tropical heat. Falling or inability to continue moving was a death sentence, as any degree of protest.Prisioners were attacked for helping someone falling,or for no reason whatsoever.Trucks drove over those who fell due to fatigue, clean up crews put to death those to weak to continue. Marchers were harrassed with random bayonet stabs and beatings. Accounts of being forcibly march for 5 to 6 days with no food or a single sip of water are in the postwar archives. The exact death count is impossible to determine, but historians have placed a minimum between 6,000 and 11,000 men,reports that 54,000 to 72,000 reached their destination equating of a death rate of from one in four to 2 in 7. Many died after reaching the POW camp. After the surrender of Japan 1n 1945 General Masaharu Homma, convicted of war crimes was found guilty and exectuted 4/3/1946 in Manila.
The Bataan Death March took place in the Phillipines in 1942 and was later accounted as Japanese war crime. The 60 mile march occurred after the 2 month Battle of Bataan part of the Battle of the Philippines during WWII. The march or forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipno prisioners charactarized by the wide range physical abuse and murder,& resulted in very high fatalities upon prisioners & civilians by the armed forces of Japan. Beheading,throat cutting and shooting were common,in addition to death by bayonet,rape disembowelment, rifle butt beating and deliberate starving or dehydration of the week long continual march in the tropical heat. Falling or inability to continue moving was a death sentence, as any degree of protest.Prisioners were attacked for helping someone falling,or for no reason whatsoever.Trucks drove over those who fell due to fatigue, clean up crews put to death those to weak to continue. Marchers were harrassed with random bayonet stabs and beatings. Accounts of being forcibly march for 5 to 6 days with no food or a single sip of water are in the postwar archives. The exact death count is impossible to determine, but historians have placed a minimum between 6,000 and 11,000 men,reports that 54,000 to 72,000 reached their destination equating of a death rate of from one in four to 2 in 7. Many died after reaching the POW camp. After the surrender of Japan 1n 1945 General Masaharu Homma, convicted of war crimes was found guilty and exectuted 4/3/1946 in Manila.
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Peter was in Bataan death march 8/26/1942 died in POW Camp
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