Modern Era · Southeast Asia · War
1942
Bataan Death March
April 9, 1942
After American and Filipino forces surrendered on the Bataan peninsula, Japanese guards marched some seventy-five thousand prisoners sixty-six miles through tropical heat without food or water, bayoneting stragglers. Perhaps ten thousand died on the road. It would be a central memory of the Pacific war and, after 1945, the subject of war crime trials.
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Also in 1942 (4 other events on record)
- Wannsee Conference plans the Holocaust · Europe · Politics
- Stalingrad begins · Europe · War
- Midway turns the Pacific war · Oceania · War
- Japanese internment in America · North America · Politics
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