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
• xi 6000 to 7000 died in captivity
• xiii 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
• xxi April 1943 American prisoners escape Davao prison camp to Australia
• xxii 78K troops, 66K Filipino and 12K Americans
• xxxii Japanese planned for 40K captives

• 3 moderate prime minister ( Prince Fumimaro Konoe ) replaced by former war minister Hideki Tojo

• 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