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The Bataan Death March and the 66-Year Struggle for Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

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April 9, 2008 marks the 66th anniversary of the fall of Bataan which resulted in the largest surrender by the United States Army in its history. Over 77,000 American and Filipino troops were to become victims of one of the most brutal episodes in the Pacific War—the Bataan Death March.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , April 2008 , e3
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Notes

[1] Lester Tenney, My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March (Washington, 1995) XV.

[2] James W. Parkinson and Lee Benson, Soldier Slaves: Abandoned by the White　House, Courts, and Congress (Annapolis, MD, 2006), p. 68.

[3] Interview by the author, 2004.

[4] John E. Olson, O'Donnell: Andersonville of the Pacific (1985), p. 177.

[5] Interview by the author, 2002.

[6] Interview by the author, 2004.

[7] Tenney, p. 163.

[8] President Truman's radio address on August 9, 1945.

[9] Interview by the author, 2005.

[10] Donald Knox, Death March: The Survivors of Bataan (New York, 1981), p. 463, and interview by the author.

[11] Abie Abraham, Ghost of Bataan Speaks (PA, 1971), p. 163.

[12] Ben Steele, Prisoners of War (Billings, MT, 1986), Cover Illustration.

[13] California Code of Civil Procedure Section 354.6

[14] Email from Tom Hayden to the author, Nov. 27, 2003

[15] From the official website of BMDM.

[16] From PBS website.

[17] See website.

[18] Email from Jonathan Sanger to the author, March 14, 2008.