Death March Of Bataan

you tube ^ | Jun 18, 2008 | Rainer Loeser

[Charlespg]

The film shows re-enactment scenes based on eye-witness accounts of the brutality and atrocities that the enemy inflicted on American and Filipino troops during the Death March and later at Camp O'Donnell and Camp Cabanatuan. The men on Bataan were forgotten by their leaders, in other words, they were expendable

[Charlespg]

anybody aware of this.I'm not aware of the director or if this a good Jun 18, 2008

[forgotten man]

I hope there is a Japanese language version of this. It might help cure their amnesia.

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[God luvs America]

once you start reading this book you won't be able to put it down...and you'll realize how bad Douglas MacCarthur was nevermind how the Japs were as bad if not worse than the islamists in many ways...

[Charlespg]

it does not look like they pulled any punches,and your right

[kroll]

Disturbing but not surprising. The japanese easily matched the Nazis in terms of brutality. Watched the Great Raid at the White sands missile base this year before the “death march”. (we were in the heavy group category... ) That movie is pretty tame stuff in comparison to the link that you posted.

[Charlespg]

meant good documentary

[tiki]

My FIL just died last month, he was a Bataan survivor. He was this meek, uncapable person, he wasn’t like what I think of a normal man and yet he survived. I asked him one day why he thought he survived and he said, friends, they all took care of each other. I later read a book by one of his friends and then I knew how he survived, that guy was a corker and not afraid to do anything.

[Huebolt]

My dad was an officer in THIS UNIT but was, fortunately, too "old" to go overseas.

He stayed as cadre and became a Major in the Army Air Force. He lost many of his friends. From Jacksboro Texas...

BTW I wonder how many baby boomers and their offspring would NOT BE HERE except for the ATOM BOMB... I'm one.

[dainbramaged]

BTW I wonder how many baby boomers and their offspring would NOT BE HERE except for the ATOM BOMB... I'm one. So am I - my Dad was a Torpedoman Third Class on a subtender and they were easy targets - had we invaded Japan, a million casualties were expected.

[oh8eleven]

you'll realize how bad Douglas MacCarthur was
They didn't call him "Dugout Doug" for nothing:

"Dugout Doug MacArthur lies a shakin' on the Rock
Safe from all the bombers and from any sudden shock
Dugout Doug is eating of the best food on Bataan
And his troops go starving on."

[magslinger]

I'm another.

One million casualties for Operation Olympia. Operation Coronet was estimated to produce another million. That is just allied casualties, Japanese figures would have been much higher.

[oh8eleven]

I wonder how many baby boomers and their offspring would NOT BE HERE except for the ATOM BOMB
My dad was a WWII Marine. No bomb, no me.

Good book about the eventual rescue of the Bataan survivors.

[ErnBatavia]

My parents had neighbors and good friends who were a bit older....their son had gone “missing” at Bataan, and the old folks never got over it until the day they died.

[oh8eleven]

And the old folks never got over it until the day they died.
Whereupon (I pray) their son was no longer missing.

[ErnBatavia]

That’s the way I’d look at it....reunion time.

[montanajoe]

I have traveled the route of the death march many many times it always sends a shiver up my spine remembering those brave men.

[Bshaw]

Ping for later viewing.

[pigsmith]

Back in the 60s my Daddy had a friend named Johnny Sedillo, and one day as we were going to ride horses at Johnny's house he said to me out of nowhere,"Johnny survived the Bataan Death March". It was the tone of his voice when he said it that made me not ask any questions.

Only in the last few years am I coming to understand, if even slightly...

[Homer_J_Simpson]

We will cover the events leading up to and following the American defeat in the Philippines next spring over at WWII + 70 Years. Most likely in excruciating detail.

My father became a casualty in December '44 on Leyte Island, so the war was over for him at that point (unless you want to count 14 months in hospitals.) But his outfit, the 32nd ID, was part of the order of battle in Operation Olympic.