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	BATAAN DEATH MARCH
		April 9, 1942, the infamous "Death March" 6 days, 90 miles, began at the Mariveles terminating at Camp O'Donnell and later moved to Camp Cabanatuan.
		The main stage of the Death March was set at Mariveles, at the southern tip of Bataan Peninsula.
		Death March ended after 6 days, where the P.O.W's boarded a train to the Death Camp.
	ghostofbataan.com /bataan/page3.html (356 words)

	Bataan, Corregidor, and the Death March: In Retrospect
		Bataan, Corregidor, and the Death March: In Retrospect
		Bataan was not synonymous with Corregidor, mistaken belief to the contrary.
		Comparing rosters of units serving on Bataan and Corregidor, it was determined that the chances of surviving imprisonment were two in three, if captured on Corregidor, and one in three if captured on Bataan, an obvious substantiation of the differences between the two groups at the time of their capture.
	home.pacbell.net /fbaldie/In_Retrospect.html (3008 words)

	Bataan Death March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		He reluctantly left Bataan on March 11th with the proclamation "I shall return." General Jonathan M. Wainwright, U.S. Army, immediately assumed command of the forces on the island of Corregidor off the southern tip of the Bataan peninsula.
		The prisoners were forced to march the 65 miles of treacherous terrain to the Japanese POW Camp, Camp O'Donnell, to the north.
		The Bataan "Death March", recognized as one of the greatest inhumanities of WWII, is also one of the greatest displays of heroism and human spirit on the part of those who did survive.
	www.bataan.navy.mil /March.htm (1037 words)

	Bataan Death March - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Homma was convicted by an Allied commission of war crimes, including the atrocities of the death march out of Bataan, and the atrocities at Camp O'Donnell and Cabanatuan that followed, and executed on April 3, 1946 outside Manila.
		The Bataan Death March is commemorated every year at White Sands Missile Range just outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
		The Bataan Death March - Information, maps, and pictures on the march itself and in-depth information on Japanese POW camps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bataan_Death_March (785 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bataan Death March
		The Bataan Death March was a war crime involving the forcible transfer of prisoners of war, with wide-ranging abuse and high fatalities, by Japanese forces in the Philippines, in 1942, after the three-month Battle of Bataan, which was part of the Battle of the Philippines (1941-42), during World War II.
		Meanwhile, Allied forces elsewhere in the Philippines fought on, and the column of prisoners marching from Bataan was accidentally shelled by US guns defending Corregidor to screen the Japanese artillery movements.
		Several of the few remaining Bataan prisoners await the competitors to congratulate them on their success of the grueling march, however the real thanks comes from the participants to those who actually endured the actual march and encampment at Cabanatuan.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bataan_Death_March (798 words)

	The Bataan Death March
		Lester I. Tenney a survivor of the Bataan Death March as a POW during WW II.
		The road we marched on was about twenty feet wide and was constructed of rock covered with crushed stone, then a layer of finely crushed rock with a final coat of sand.
		Unfortunately for the men on the Bataan march, the Japanese plan for the evacuation of their captive prisoners was based on three assumptions, all of which proved to be without merit.
	www.think.org /pow/the_march.html (11469 words)

	The American Experience \| MacArthur \| Capture and Death March
		Before the "Death March" was over, those who survived would march more than sixty miles through intense heat with almost no water or food.
		Alfred X. Burgos: Well, when Bataan surrendered, they gathered all of us in Mariveles, Bataan, and they told us that we had to march all the way to San Fernando Pampanga because we were all going to be accounted for and taken to prison camps.
		Beck: The road that we were marching on was the main road from Manila all the way into Bataan, to Baguio, which was the summer capital.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/macarthur/sfeature/bataan_capture.html (1563 words)

	Bataan Memorial Death March draws thousands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Now in its 17th year, the memorial march honors a special group of World War II heroes who were responsible for the defense of the islands of Luzon, Corregidor and the harbor defense forts of the Philippines.
		The prisoners were forced to march about 100 kilometers north in the scorching heat of the Philippine jungles to Camp O'Donnell, a prison camp.
		Bataan survivor John Mims traveled from North Carolina to be a part of the day.
	www4.army.mil /ocpa/read.php?story_id_key=8752 (446 words)

	Bataan Memorial Death March - Race Details
		Bataan is one of very few marathons that are rated with "three fives" almost unanimously.
		The march is not for the weak or untrained.
		As someone who has run several marathons and is the relative of two Death March survivors, the Bataan Memorial March is a highlight of the year for me. The camaraderie shared between all the participants, volunteers, spectators and veterans truly honors the spirit of the event.
	www.marathonguide.com /races/racedetails.cfm?MIDD=1604030330 (1243 words)

	Hilltop Times - Bataan Death March
		Ten thousand soldiers perished either on the march, or subsequently of malaria, heat, dehydration and dysentery as they were packed into boxcars to travel from San Fernando to Capas.
		Bataan survivor David Tellez, a former Army corporal, wore his old uniform and greeted participants at one of the several aid stations along the way.
		The Japanese commander of the Bataan Death March was convicted of war crimes by a U.S. military commission and executed April 3, 1946.
	www.hilltoptimes.com /story.asp?storyid=4166 (493 words)

	Bataan Death March - A Survivor's Story: The Bataan Death March
		You and your group began the march on April 12, 1942?
		There, the march ended and we got on board a train.
		So, you started marching at Mariveles and walked eighty miles to San Fernando, a railroad terminal.
	www.bataansurvivor.com /content/the_bataan_death_march/1.php (389 words)

	1942: BATAAN DEATH MARCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Although their defense was ultimately overwhelmed, the successful execution of MacArthur's Bataan plan saved the troops on Luzon from immediate defeat, delayed the Japanese timetable for conquest by four months, and kept large Japanese combat forces tied up in the Philippines until May 1942.
		News of what came to be called the “Bataan Death March” reached the American public in January 1944, when the U.S. War Department released accounts from several survivors who had escaped from prison and reached Allied territory with the aid of Filipino guerrillas.
		A U.S. military commission arraigned Homma on 19 December 1945 for forty-seven specifications of the charge of violating the laws of war, primarily concerned with mistreatment of POWs on the Death March and in the prison camps afterward, in addition to the bombing of Manila in violation of the open-city declaration.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_history_ww2_stories_1942bdm.php (1345 words)

	Battle for Bataan
		The men were to march from Mariveles to San Fernando, a 100-kilometer (62 miles) walk, then another 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) to Camp O'Donnell.
		And the Bataan Death March went down in the history books as one of the most devastating events of World War II.
		This year marked the 13th annual Bataan Memorial Death March, a grueling 26.2-mile march through the New Mexico desert to honor the sacrifices of soldiers like Hamilton.
	reta.nmsu.edu /bataan/curriculum/resources/articles/airman/airmen.html (1189 words)

	Bataan death march - Bataan Death March - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bataan Memorial Death March is a challenging march through the high desert The GREEN route is the full 26.2-mile Bataan Memorial Death March.
		Bataan, Corregidor, and the Death March: In Retrospect
		Bataan Death March (April 1942) Forced march of 70000 US and Filipino prisoners of war (World War II) captured by the Japanese in the Philippines.
	xn--nyqt4efya.com /bcct/bataan-death-march.html (529 words)

	POW MIA Bataan Death March WW II
		Bataan vet David O. Tellez, who received a Bronze Star and the Prisoner of War medal in a ceremony Wednesday, said he’ll also be there, probably to once again sit at his water stop halfway through the march, shaking hands with marchers.
		The first memorial march was in 1989, after a small group of New Mexico State University Army ROTC cadets headed by Ray Pickering approached commanders about doing a commemorative march, in large part due to the battalion being named the Bataan Battalion.
		Hundreds of competitive runners and athletes have competed in the memorial march due to its legitimate athletic challenges, hoping to beat either a rival team or be the first to cross the finish line.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter24/in040313bataanmemorial.html (1630 words)

	Ghost of Bataan
		Since the incarceration was meant to insure death beginning with a starvation diet of 800 calories daily, record keeping would have earned Abie an agonizing death if he had been caught.
		After rescue of the 6th Rangers in January 1945, in the office of General Douglas MacArthur in Manila, Abie agreed to stay in the Phillippines and exhume the remains of KIA's and murdered Americans, many of whom SGT Abraham knew in the flesh.
		During exhuming of graves on Bataan, a Japanese-Filipino came over to Abraham stating that the Japanese in the jungles wanted to surrender knowing the war was over and many were sick.
	www.ghostofbataan.com (488 words)

	Report of Japanese Atrocities, Bataan Death March, Palawan Massacre
		What was in store for them was to begin with “the march of death” — and Dyess reported that, beaten and hopeless as they were, they never would have surrendered if they had guessed what lay ahead.
		Then, in groups of 500 to 1,000 they began the terrible six-day march, along the national road of Bataan toward San Fernando in Pampanga province, the “march of death” so hideous that it would make the fl hole of Calcutta sound like a haven of refuge.
		The prisoners taken at Corregidor did not experience that march, but 7,000 Americans and 5,000 Filipinos were packed for a week with no food on a concrete pavement 100 yards square.
	www.angelfire.com /nm/bcmfofnm/atrocities/atrocities01.html (1484 words)

	Bataan Memorial Death March
		The Bataan Memorial Death March is a challenging march through the high desert terrain of White Sands Missile Range, N.M., conducted in honor of the heroic service members who defended the Philippine Islands during World War II, sacrificing their freedom, health and, in many cases, their very lives.
		Those marching the 26.2 miles will be able to experience, in part, what Soldiers endured during their long forced trek through the Philippines.
		This shorter march is designed for participates who would like to memorialize Bataan but do not wish to march the full 26.2-mile route.
	www.bataanmarch.com (181 words)

	Death March
		The Bataan Death March began at Mariveles on April 10, 1942.
		A Death March project is a good sign of project mismanagement and impending project failure.
		The second is that one way get a a death march project back under control is to resort to triage - cutting functionality drastically in order to return the project to tractability.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?DeathMarch (1513 words)

	Bataan Death March photos and text related to The Edge by First Lieutenant George Francis, USMC, Retired
		Groups of prisoners were halted—even marched back—and placed in front of the artillery in plain sight of Americans on Corregidor.
		Near the end of the march, he had a recurring dream, while both awake and in fitful slumber, of lying in a white bathtub with a clear blue waterfall cascading into his open mouth.
		That there were no known Marine deaths on the Bataan Death March can be attributed, survivors claim, to their basic training as Marines.
	www.fourthmarinesband.com /march.htm (2123 words)

	POW MIA Bataan Death March
		“Bataan: A Survivor’s Story,” possibly one of the last accounts to come from a Bataan survivor, details the Bataan Death March and Boyt’s subsequent 42 months in Japanese internment camps.
		And it may well be the last full length account of the Bataan Death March told by an American officer.
		On March 28, 2003, Boyt and Burch were honored at a special dinner party in Chickasha.
	www.aiipowmia.com /inter24/in110304bataan.html (971 words)

	Amazon.com: My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March: Books: Lester I. Tenney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Captured by the Japanese after the fall of Bataan, Lester Tenney was one of the very few who would survive the legendary Death March and three and a half years in Japanese prison camps.
		After the march he goes into his time in the POW camps in the Filapeens, his escape, his recapture, his boat trip to Japan and his work in the Japanese coal mines.
		Although spared the indignity of the Bataan Death March, my father was captured on the island of Corregidor, shipped to Japan and incarcerated for 3 1/2 years at a camp in Fukuoka.
	www.amazon.com /My-Hitch-Hell-Bataan-Death/dp/1574882988 (1941 words)

	Death march - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In World War II history, a death march was a march or excursion in extremely harsh conditions with disregard to life and health of marchers, who were usually prisoners, and often resulted in numerous deaths, hence the name.
		Initially the term was used by victims and then by historians to refer to the forcible movement in the winter of 1944-5 by Nazi Germany of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, from Nazi concentration camps near the advancing war front to camps inside Germany, see the "Death marches (Holocaust)" article for details.
		The term could be applied to the death marches that took place during the 1915 Armenian Genocide where thousands of men, women and children were forced into death marches through the desert of Ter Zor where most of them perished, leaving few survivors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Death_march (310 words)

	Amputees join 3,500 in Bataan Death March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		One generation of war heroes paid tribute to another March 20 at the 16th annual Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. After 26 miles through gravel, sand and wind-blown dust, Sgt. 1st Class Michael McNaughton sprinted toward the finish line.
		The memorial event began in 1989 to honor the tens of thousands of American and Filipino troops surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942, on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.
		Bataan Death March survivor Ben Steele of Billings, Mont., was in awe of McNaughton’s effort.
	www.belvoireagle.com /archives/2005/MAR/24MAR/march.shtml (555 words)

	BuzzBlog » Bataan Death March marathon, NM.
		The men of the 200th assumed the mission of covering the withdrawal to Bataan and distinguished themselves during this action and during the defense of Bataan.
		The men survived the Battle of Bataan, the horrors and atrocities of the “death march” and the privation and deep humiliation of the prisoner of war camps.
		This march came to be know as the “Death March”, prisoners were forced marched 65 miles, some as far as 95 miles without food, water and rest - for up the twelve hours a day for five to seven days.
	blog.runningbuzz.com /?p=133 (1556 words)

	Bataan Death March 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		We Marched to honor the POW/MIA who were captured by Japanese Forces in the Philippines during World War two.
		The POWs were forced to march around 70 miles in the malaria infested jungle heat of the Philippines.
		The Bataan Memorial Death March was a 26.2 mile course through the intense sand and mountainous terrain of White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
	www.valdosta.edu /~baward/photo.htm (107 words)

	The Bataan Death March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		On April 10, 1942 the Bataan Death March began.
		Nearly 76,000 American and Filipino troops were marched 26.2 miles across the 95-degree desert with no water and next to no food.
		Before the march had even began the soldiers were deprived of food and other supplies; the 3 month walk that followed did nothing to help the soldiers who were already wounded or sick.
	www.angelfire.com /ky3/bataandeathmarch (287 words)

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