| LC control no. | sh2004007609 |
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| Topical heading | Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942 |
| See also | Death marches--Philippines World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Philippines |
| Found in | Work cat.: Records of Allied Operational and Occupation Headquarters, 1907-1966 (aerial photographs of the Bataan Death March route) Britannica.com, April 19, 2004 (Bataan death march; forced march of 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in the early stages of World War II. Starting out from Mariveles, on the southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, on April 9, 1942, they were force-marched 55 miles (88 km) to San Fernando, then taken by rail to Capas, from where they walked the final 8 miles (13 km) to Camp O'Donnell) |
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