Bataan Death March 1942 Photos

    The Bataan Death March occurred in 1942, when the Japanese forced over 70,000 Filipino and American prisoners to march 60 miles from their point of capture to prison camps. During the march, they were subjected to inhumane treatment, which in many cases resulted in the death of the POW. The inhumane and torturous treatment included, but was not limited to, denial of food and water, stabbing, beating, shooting, being disemboweled, and throats cut, with some beheadings. Prisoners were routinely killed for not being able to walk, and they also faced the wrath of their captors for trying to help their fellow POWs. Many thousands of prisoners died before even reaching the prison camp, with many more dieing later.

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American POWs with their hands tied behind their backs. Obviously suffering from hunger.

 

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Filipino soldiers and police comprised over three-quarters of the Death Marchers. Here, a group of Filipinos carry fellow soldiers unable to walk.

 This Photos shows Americans surrendering at Corregidor, Philippine Islands, 05-1942. 

 It is a National Archives Photo: Part of, Photographs of the Allies and Axis, compiled 1942 - 1945. NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-208-AA-80B-1
Select List Identifier: WWII #129

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A very large group of American POWs wait to begin the Bataan Death March. 

Many of these men never reached the prison camp. 

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A large group of American prisoners prior to the beginning of the Bataan death march. 

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A long line of prisoners on the Bataan Death March. 

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A wounded American soldier being marched during the Bataan Death March.

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Soldiers being searched by Japanese. 

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U.S. Servicemen on the death march, carry dead buddies to be buried at Camp O’Donnell.

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This photo shows Japanese artillery firing on Bataan.

 

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Japanese soldiers celebrate after the fall of Bataan.

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This surrender leaflet was created by the Japanese, and was meant to encourage Americans to surrender. On the leaflet, it says that if they surrender they will be kindly treated, but after the Americans did surrender, some soldiers that had this leaflet in their possession, were executed for not surrendering sooner. 

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Another surrender leaflet, encouraging Americans and Filipinos to surrender to the Japanese.

  The photo shows the remains of one of the more than 100 American Prisoners of War captured at Bataan and Corregidor and burned alive by the Japanese at a Prisoner of War camp, Puerto Princesa, Palawan, Philippines. Medical personnel were attempting to identify them.

National Archive Photo: From, Signal Corps Photographs of American Military Activity, compiled 1754 - 1954. NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-111-SC-212111

This Library of Congress Photo shows Filpino injured in the fighting on Bataan, Jan. 28, 1942.

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This Library of Congress Photo Shows, General Douglas MacArthur, congratulating Captain Villamor of the Philippine Air Force. Captain Villamor performed heroic service in the Battle of Bataan.

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 Major General Jonathan Wainwright (left) is shown with General Douglas MacArthur, in this Library of Congress Photo. Wainwright took over command when MacArthur was ordered to Australia. 

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 Lieutenant Mary Lohr, a Army nurse, of Greenburg, Pennsylvania (left), was awarded the Royal Blue Ribbon, for gallant service at Bataan. With her is Lieutenant Robert L. Laub of Richland, Missouri, who received the Navy Cross for extraordinary heroism as torpedo bomber pilot in the Battle of Midway. Library of Congress Photo. Photo Details

 This Buy War Bonds Poster, says "Remember me? I was at Bataan"

It is at the National Archives, as part of the Series: World War II Posters, compiled 1942 - 1945

NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-44-PA-1626

 Making good on his promise to return, General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore during initial landings at Leyte.   National Archives Photo: Part of; Series: Signal Corps Photographs of American Military Activity, compiled 1754 - 1954. NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-111-SC-407101

 This National Archives Photo shows Douglas MacArthur and Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright greeting each other August 31, 1945 in Japan. It was their first meeting since  parting on Corregidor more that three years before.

 In this photo, an Army Chaplain, who was taken prisoner at Bataan, in April, 1942, blesses the flag made from supply parachutes by Allied POWs, at Maibara Prisoner of War Camp, Japan. The photo was taken in 1945. 

Photo: Australian War Memorial.  details

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