← Previous – RS10 – Next → Chapter 10THE DEATH MARCH••••• Our life was but a battle and a march And like the wind’s blast, never-resting, homeless We stormed across the war-convulsed heath. – Friedrich Von Schiller ••••• The dust that enveloped the road
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← Previous – RS9B – Next → Chapter 9BTHE SURRENDER••••• The Bataan Death March was a forced march of more than 70, 000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in the early stages of World War II.
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← Previous – RS9A – Next → Chapter 9ATHE SURRENDER••••• The Bataan Death March was a forced march of more than 70, 000 American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippines in the early stages of World War II.
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← Previous – RS08 – Next → Chapter 8THE FALL OF BATAAN••••• During the final days of the battle for Bataan, American and Filipino forces attempted to form a line of resistance across the peninsula from Orion on Manila Bay to Bagac on the
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← Previous – RS07 – Next → Chapter 7THE LAST STAND••••• Lt. John Bulkerley, commander of PT-41, received orders to proceed to Corregidor: The high command had to be evacuated, by orders of the President of the United States. On March 11, 1942, General
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← Previous – RS06B – Next → Chapter 6bJapanese Propaganda••••• A man I knew found a radio which we hooked up to a truck battery. In the evening, with the sounds of insects buzzing all around us and unknown animals calling out in the
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← Previous – RS06A – Next → Chapter 6aAT HOME IN THE JUNGLE••••• Every soldier trapped in a foxhole during an artillery barrage faces a stiff test of self-control. Many times I struggled through this ordeal and forced myself to relax when I felt
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← Previous – RS05 – Next → Chapter 5THE BASTARDS OF BATAAN••••• Bataan province is in central Luzon of the Philippines, and occupies a 530-square miles (1,370 sq. km) peninsula extending southward and sheltering Manila Bay (east)from the South China Sea. Corregidor Island lies
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← Previous – RS04 – Next → LAST BOAT TO BATAAN••••• Stacked on the pier in front of the cargo ship were about forty heavy packing crates which we were instructed to load aboard before we left. We were about to begin when an
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← Previous – RS03 – Next → THE ENEMY OVERHEAD••••• Early on the morning of December 8th, only a few short hours after they began dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese struck the Philippines. By the end of the first day, the U.S.
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