Blacksmith
04-08-2012, 03:49 AM
Monday April 9th is the 70th Anniversery of the surrender of the U.S. and Filipino forces on the Bataan Penninsula.
It was on April 9, 1942, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that U.S. forces on the Bataan peninsula surrendered to the Japanese invaders. The troops were soon forced to walk 55 miles to prison camps in what became known as the Bataan Death March.
More U.S. and Filipino forces held out until May 6 on Corregidor Island when they, too, surrendered.
Of the more 1,800 New Mexico National Guardsmen deployed to the Philippines late in 1941, 800 died in captivity by the time the war ended in August 1945, and more died from disease and injuries after liberation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March
It was on April 9, 1942, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, that U.S. forces on the Bataan peninsula surrendered to the Japanese invaders. The troops were soon forced to walk 55 miles to prison camps in what became known as the Bataan Death March.
More U.S. and Filipino forces held out until May 6 on Corregidor Island when they, too, surrendered.
Of the more 1,800 New Mexico National Guardsmen deployed to the Philippines late in 1941, 800 died in captivity by the time the war ended in August 1945, and more died from disease and injuries after liberation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March