82 years ago – April 9, 1942 – some 75,000 American and Filipino servicemen became POWs when Bataan peninsula fell to Japanese forces.
With in days the overwhelming majority of them were forced onto the Bataan Death March.
These are their stories.
I mention the following men in this episode:
- Jim Gallagher – Sportswriter from Philly who died on the first day of the march (Episode 27)
- Ray Hunt – The young air corpsman who escaped the march and became a guerilla leader (Episode 28)
- Jack and Bobby Aldrich – Brothers who served in the same Artillery unit and marched together (Episode 29)
- Gen Ed King – The man who surrendered Bataan (Episode 24)
- Lester Tenney – A tank man in the army reserves who was injured on but survived the Death March (Episode 2)
- Pantingan River Massacre – When the Japanese killed some 300 surrendered Filipino soldiers (episode 31)
- A young POW’s search for water at Camp O’Donnell (episode 32)
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