BATAAN DEATH MARCH

The Bataan Death March (Japanese:Batān Shi no Kōshin (バターン死の行進^?)) was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 76,000 American and Filipino prisoners of warafter the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners.

The 97 km (60 mi) march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the Japanese Army, and was later judged by an Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime.

From Mariveles, Bataan The Filipino and American Soldiers walked a SIXTY MILES distance going to San Fernando, Pampaga.

Because of the so called Death March, many died and their bodies were left on the roads.