Question

When Bataan fell in April 1942, most US and Filipino soldiers who surrendered to the Japanese

Answer 1

were beaten and marched to a POW camp by Japanese soldiers.

The Battle of Bataan, located in the Philippines, ended with US surrender to the Japanese. The march to the POW (prisoner of war) camp is referred to as the Battan Death March.

The Battan Death March was a 65 mile march from one end of the island to the other to reach the POW camp. The Japanese marched groups of soldiers and Filipino people while beating them, starving them, and killing anyone too weak to keep up. The exact number who died on the march is unknown but estimates put it into the thousands. Those that made it to the POW camp continued to experience poor treatment leading to the death of more at the camps.

Answer 2

were beaten and marched to a POW camp by Japanese soldiers.