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Death March

The Survivors of Bataan

940.5472 KNO 1981 Donald Knox

Interviews with 68 survivors

  • Japanese Attack Luzon 1941 December 8
  • Bataan Surrender 1942 April 9 (10,000 Americans, Maj. Gen. Edward P. King)
  • Corregidor Surrender 1942 May 6
  • pxi 6000 to 7000 died in captivity
  • pxiii 4000 alive when Japan surrenders in August 1945
  • WP: between 19,500 and 50,000 Japanese surrendered to Western Allies before April 1945
  • WP: Meiji Japan adopted western POW policies, no-surrender fanaticism emerged 1920s and 1930s
  • pxxi April 1943 American prisoners escape Davao prison camp to Australia
  • pxxii 78K troops, 66K Filipino and 12K Americans
  • pxxxii Japanese planned for 40K captives
  • p03 moderate prime minister ( Prince Fumimaro Konoe ) replaced by former war minister Hideki Tojo

  • 04 35 B-17 bombers at Clark Field

  • 10 told to scatter tanks, loaded machine guns by hand, then ordered to clean the cannons
  • 13 B-17s land to re-gas, lined up on runway
  • 19 Japanese attack "mapped out perfect", every bomb hit a gasoline storage tank or an airplane
  • 24 double bottom, hiding in the bottom of the ship, the slobs were the brave ones
  • 27 P-35 radials short noses, P-40 long noses tip onto nose on grass runways
  • 27 Zero more maneuverable and wins dogfights, P-40 faster, hit-and-run instead
  • 28 bad ammunition, P-40 gun jams had to be cleared on the ground
  • 32 Japanese enter Manila 1942 Jan 2
  • 53 First Bataan battle line from Mauban across Mount Natib to Abucay

    • plenty of ammunition, half rations
    • hold out until the American fleet arrived (but two years needed to fight its way across the Pacific)
  • 65 old WW1 doughboy helmets

  • 118 Death march (5K to 10K Filipinos died, 600 to 700 Americans died)
  • 153 to Camp O'Donnell (partly completed airfield) near Capas
  • 359 1943 defeats, millions of factory workers drafted, war captives replaced many
    • 337 Hell ships 1944 Sep-Dec, overloaded freighters from Philippines to Japan, more than 5000 died when ships sunk
    • 175 camps, shoveling coal, repairing track, mines and foundries, loading cargo ships
  • WP Phillipines Liberation 1944 Oct 20 to 1945 Aug 15
  • WP Corregidor Allied capture 1945 Feb 27, Manila Allied capture March 3, Fort Drum incinerated April 12
  • 439 Camp in Omuta, smoke from Nagasaki 40 miles southwest
  • 440 Camp in Korea, Japanese colonel surrenders to senior officer Lt. Col. Curtis Beecher USMC
  • 441 Camp Omine Machi commander Omura surrenders to US senior officer, who commands him to keep it and take it home
  • 446 American pilot drops note "open the kitchen door", bounced a rolled-up newspaper through it on next pass.
  • 451 train near Hiroshima: trees missing leaves, then branches, then trunks missing, then nothing. Beautiful to freed POW, because it ended the war
  • 463 4-F'er MP, curfew. "get off the street". My dad told him "My kid just come back from a POW camp. and you better move your fat butt out of our way or I'm going to whip you right here."

DeathMarch (last edited 2023-03-07 03:19:03 by KeithLofstrom)