After the surrender of the American and Filipino defenders of the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines, Japanese forces moved about seventy thousand prisoners of war northward on foot and then by rail to camps. The march covered roughly one hundred kilometres from Mariveles at the southern tip of Bataan, and it was marked by brutality, with the prisoners starved, deprived of water, beaten and executed in the heat of the tropical summer. Thousands of Filipinos and hundreds of Americans died on the way or in the camps. After the war the Japanese commander, General Masaharu Homma, was tried for war crimes and executed in 1946.
Before and after
- 27 February 1942Battle of the Java Sea
- 9 March 1942Birth of John Cale
- 25 March 1942Birth of Aretha Franklin
- from 31 March 1942 to 10 April 1942Indian Ocean raid
- April 1942Bataan Death March
- 12 April 1942Birth of Jacob Zuma
- 18 April 1942Doolittle Raid
- 24 April 1942Birth of Barbra Streisand
- May 1942Construction of Sobibór Extermination Camp
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