The Bataan Death March 1942 : Causation, Progress, Completion, Recollection and Associated Repercussions.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

East, Bob.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942.

World War, 1939-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford : Ethics International Press Limited, 2024.

Summary:

This book is predominately about the Bataan Death March that followed the capitulation and surrender of the Philippine and United States armed forces on 09 April 1942 in Luzon, Philippines. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in late December 1941, and the subsequent bombing of Clark Air Base, Japanese forces landed in Northern Luzon, and worked their way down to the capital, Manilla. Early in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur ordered all the Allied forces in Luzon to proceed south to the Bataan Peninsula. Both he and General Wainwright and 10,000 allied troops went further south to Corregidor Island. (This left General King in charge of all the allied troops in the Bataan Peninsula). Throughout January, February, and March 1942, the Philippine and U.S. troops underwent extreme hardship and, although asking General MacArthur for permission to surrender, which was refused, General King, on 09 April 1942 surrendered to the Japanese. This then triggered the beginning of the Bataan Death March--a 70 kilometre forced march to San Fernando, a train trip of 2-3 hours, and finally another 13 kilometre walk to the O'Donnell P.O.W. Camp in Capas. What followed was the death of thousands of prisoners of war both on the Bataan Death March and in the years following, until the Japanese surrendered in September 1945. The book will provide a valuable resource for students and researchers of modern history; particularly the Second World War, and the War in the Pacific,1941-1945.

Contents:

Intro

Author's Note

Epigraph

Previous Books Written about the Bataan Death March

List of Illustrations

Fig. 9.6. Showing a Filipina helping a wounded U.S. soldier, and Filipino on the Bataan Death March.

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

The Attack on Clark and Iba Field

Del Monte Airfield after Clark and Iba

Early land attacks on the Philippines

Chapter One The Battle of Bataan

Brief background to the Battle of Bataan

Battle of Trail Two

Battle of the Points

Battle of the Pockets

Chapter Two Surrender of Bataan and Corregidor

Balanga Elementary School and the Bataan WWII Museum

The Resistance and Fall of Corregidor

Chapter Three The Prelude to the Beginning of the Bataan Death March

Chapter Four The Death March from Mariveles, Cabcaben, Orion and Balanga

Mariveles to Cabcaben

Cabcaben to Orion

Bagac to Orion/Balanga

The Pantingan River Massacre

Mount Samat National Shrine

Chapter Five The Death March through Balanga, Orani, Layac, Lubao, Guagua, and San Fernando

San Fernando

Chapter Six Arrival at Camp O'Donnell, Internment and Transferring

Camp O'Donnell Exposed

The Raid at Cabanatuan

Chapter Seven Trial and Death Sentence of General Masaharu Homma

Trial Controversy

The Execution

Summation

Chapter Eight Abridged List of Filipino and U. S. Survivors of the Bataan Death March

Chapter Nine Death March Markers

Obelisks

F.A.M.E.

Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell

Philippine &amp

United States Memorials to the Bataan Death March

Philippine Memorials-not exhaustive

Capas National Shrine. Tarlac

Mount Samat "Shrine of Valor" Dambana ng Kagitingan

Death March Markers: Obelisks

United States Memorials and Plaques-not exhaustive

Bataan Memorial Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Chapter Ten Death Tolls on the March

Exaggerations

General Leslie Groves

Citation awarded to Major General Richard Groves

Fact

Water: true or false recollections?

Conclusion

Addendum

Bibliographies and References.

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Other Format:

Print version: East, Bob The Bataan Death March 1942

ISBN:

9781804417621

OCLC:

1492948434