Capture and Death March. Wainwright, surrendered to the Japanese. Burgos: Well, when Bataan surrendered, they gathered all of. Mariveles, Bataan, and they told us that we had to march all the way to. San Fernando Pampanga because we were all going to be accounted for and taken. For example, if you should not want to walk. I've seen them shoot walking. If you could not keep up with the group in the Death March, rather. Death March, they'd get rid of you by shooting you.. Oh, they. bayoneted people, they shot people, and if they think that you were delaying. Death March, you're dead. Interviewer: Did you see anybody else die or get killed? Richard Gordon: Oh, yes. Several who broke ranks .. Japanese who were part of that detail. They would start you double- timing until the. There are ways you can rest one leg and shift your weight. But, if. they caught you at it, it meant a butt stroke with a rifle or a beating over. They'd shoot. indiscriminately into the crowd and some got shot and laid there. Because of the mess, everybody was sick with malaria and. Leon Beck: I don't think there's any glory in being a prisoner of war. I'd made up my mind, when it looked desperate .. I told everybody: . A Woman Retraced the Entire Route of the Bataan Death March Alone By Yukie Sasa Published in the December issue of Bungei Shunju. A lot of Japanese know.The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan) took place in the Philippines in 1942 and was later accounted as a Japanese war crime. Bataan Death March: A Survivor's Account and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Capture and Death March 'A terrible silence settled over Bataan about noon on April 9,' remembered General Jonathan Wainwright, the man who had assumed MacArthur's. Check out exclusive Bataan Death March videos and features. Browse the latest Bataan Death March videos and more on HISTORY.com. An eyewitness account of the brutal treatment by the Japanese of those who surrendered at the Battle of Bataan.
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