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6 unusual facts about Bataan Death March


Bataan 1 and Bataan 2

The call-sign was reportedly selected on General MacArthur's orders as a reminder of Japanese actions during the Bataan Death March.

Bataan Memorial Death March

The Bataan Memorial Death March is an annual commemoration of the Bataan Death March attended by many of the survivors of the march, along with thousands of supporters from around the world, held at

Bataan Military Academy

During a forced removal to a POW camp, some 70,000 of these American and Philippine soldiers died during what later became known as the Bataan Death March.

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Justice Delfin had been captured by the Japanese and walked the Bataan Death March.

Oscar Hilman

Though he was born in the Philippines BG Hilman's family suffered a tremendous loss when his grandfather and uncle perished in the Bataan Death March.

Robert Deyber

Robert grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut - his mother a talented portrait artist and fashion model who died when Deyber was sixteen, his father Robert Deyber Sr. a real estate broker and POW, survivor of the Bataan Death March.


34th Pursuit Squadron

The survivors fought as infantry during Battle of Bataan and after their surrender, were subjected to the Bataan Death March, although some did escape to Australia.

Bataan Day

The majority of these prisoners of war had their belongings confiscated before being forced to endure the infamous 140 kilometre (90 mile) Bataan Death March to Camp O'Donnell in Capas, Tarlac.

Iván Castro

In 2008, he participated in the Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon in New Mexico, the Boston Marathon and the U.S. Air Force Marathon.


see also

Bino Realuyo

His next poetry collection, On which the Summer Leans will chronicle his father's experiences during World War II, from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's recruitment of young Filipinos into the U.S. Army through the terrors of the Bataan Death March and Japanese Camps to the denial of their war-time benefits as a result of the approval by the U.S. Congress of the Rescission Act of 1946.