Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, (reproduction number LC-DIG-fsa-8b08336) ( See Researcher’s Note: Bataan Death March: How many marched and how many died?)Ī United States Army Signal Corps map depicting the disposition of U.S. Only 54,000 prisoners reached the camp though exact numbers are unknown, some 2,500 Filipinos and 500 Americans may have died during the march, and an additional 26,000 Filipinos and 1,500 Americans died at Camp O’Donnell. During the main march-which lasted 5 to 10 days, depending on where a prisoner joined it-the captives were beaten, shot, bayoneted, and, in many cases, beheaded a large number of those who made it to the camp later died of starvation and disease. From there they walked an additional 7 miles (11 km) to Camp O’Donnell, a former Philippine army training centre used by the Japanese military to intern Filipino and American prisoners. Mainly starting in Mariveles, on the southern tip of the Bataan Peninsula, on April 9, 1942, the prisoners were force-marched north to San Fernando and then taken by rail in cramped and unsanitary boxcars farther north to Capas.
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