John Falconer, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, looked out as Hiroshima neared.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
1942 war crime in which Japanese soldiers killed perhaps 25% of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war as they were matched sixty miles while treating them with extreme brutality
John Falconer, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, looked out as Hiroshima neared.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
Cash from disability checks earned with shrapnel in the neck at Wake Island or shell shock on Iwo Jima; rewards for surviving the Bataan Death March.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony
The emaciated survivors were driven sixty-five miles on foot for three days in lacerating heat to a prison camp: the infamous Bataan Death March.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
We stayed with a friend of my father’s who had been drafted, sent to the Philippines, served in the Bataan Death March, and spoke of three and a half years in a Japanese prison camp.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
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I have sat face-to-face with a Bataan Death March survivor, an airman shot down over Germany, a Marine who was at the Chosin Reservoir, veterans from every region of Vietnam, medics and infantry soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
While thousands of men would be sought later, this preliminary list was composed of those accused of the worst crimes, including list-topper Hideki Tojo, mastermind of Pearl Harbor and the man on whose orders POWs had been enslaved and starved,and Masahuru Homma, who was responsible for the Bataan Death March.
