HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Japanese soldiers, because they refused to surrender
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Allied prisoners of war, because the Japanese forced them to
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Allied soldiers, because it was essential to the success of the island-hopping strategy
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Chinese civilians, because they were forced off their land by the Japanese invasion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Three months after the start of the Battle of Bataan, the Bataan Death March began, forcing 60, 000-80, 000 Filipino and American prisoners of war to march through the Philippines. The route was about 65 miles long and stretched from the peninsula to the railhead inland (see below).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Bataan Death March Begins Thousands of troops died because of the brutality of their captors, who starved and beat the marchers, and bayoneted those too weak to walk. Survivors were taken by rail from San Fernando to POW camps, where thousands more died from disease, murder and starvation. This is a modal window.
Detailed explanation-3: -March of Death from Bataan to the prison camp march at Cabanatuan. Photo by U.S. Army. The Japanese guards killed between 7, 000-10, 000 men during the death march as they kept no records and no one knows the exact number. If a man fell, it was a certain death unless another could pick him up and support him.
Detailed explanation-4: -Finally, after an additional march, the sick, starving, and brutalized captives were herded into prison camps, one for Filipino soldiers and another for Americans, across the road from each other at a former Philippine army training ground called Camp O’Donnell.