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re: On This Date (Feb 1, 1945) - Bataan Death March Survivors Rescued
Posted on 2/1/22 at 11:29 am to blueridgeTiger
Posted on 2/1/22 at 11:29 am to blueridgeTiger
The Filipino POWs were treated even more brutally than their American counterparts.
The Americans and their Filipino allies had already held out several weeks longer than anyone thought possible with very little supplies to start with, so they were in bad shape when they finally surrendered.
It wasn’t just the Japanese brutality, they were completely unprepared to handle any POWs, and they suddenly had tens of thousands. The march was an unorganized procession into hell.
The Americans and their Filipino allies had already held out several weeks longer than anyone thought possible with very little supplies to start with, so they were in bad shape when they finally surrendered.
It wasn’t just the Japanese brutality, they were completely unprepared to handle any POWs, and they suddenly had tens of thousands. The march was an unorganized procession into hell.
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Posted on 2/1/22 at 11:38 am to Ghost of Colby
My dad was a small child during the 1941 Louisiana maneuvers. An activated National Guard unit from Pennsylvania bivouaced near where they lived and his family got to be friendly with some of them. They maintained a correspondence with them after the maneuvers. Those guys shipped out to the Phillipines and they never heard from any of them again after Pearl Harbor. My father has often wondered if any of them survived.
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