Thanks. I always wondered how they made out.
I read a lot of that fight and more than one survivor said that had they known what was in front of them, they would have gone out Alamo-style.
I always thought we got the crap beat out of us, but in reading one definitive, IMO, book about Bataan, we put up one Helluva fight, despite the lack of food and medicine.
Hi Oatka...thanks for looking into what the “Battling Bastards of Bataan” went through to continue protecting our country and “buying time” for recovery after Pearl Harbor in killing as many enemy troops as possible before giving their lives if they had to. My father said the defenders of Bataan “went for broke,” in that they knew they were laying their lives on the line every day.
My father was severely wounded (”gut shot” as they say)but somehow left that field hospital to rejoin his unit (Co. C/1st Battalion/31st Inf. Regiment)and fight while still stitched up. He also was one who said they would’ve rather gone down “Alamo style” if they had only known what subhuman and ungodly horrors lay ahead. How he survived it all to become the great father and caring person he was, i’ll never know. He’s been gone a year now and I just came back from visiting his humble grave...no monument or testimony there to what he survived and did.