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    During World War II in April 1942, over 75,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps after the US surrendered the Bataan Peninsula and Philippines to Japan. Many prisoners were beaten, shot, or beheaded along the five to ten day march. Only around 54,000 made it to the camps alive. In 1944, the US avenged its defeat by invading Leyte in the Philippines under General Douglas MacArthur, and retook the Bataan Peninsula in 1945. The Japanese commander of the invasion, Lieutenant General Homma Masaharu, was later convicted by the US military for being responsible for the abuses during the Bataan Death March and in the prison camps

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    During World War II in April 1942, over 75,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps after the US surrendered the Bataan Peninsula and Philippines to Japan. Many prisoners were beaten, shot, or beheaded along the five to ten day march. Only around 54,000 made it to the camps alive. In 1944, the US avenged its defeat by invading Leyte in the Philippines under General Douglas MacArthur, and retook the Bataan Peninsula in 1945. The Japanese commander of the invasion, Lieutenant General Homma Masaharu, was later convicted by the US military for being responsible for the abuses during the Bataan Death March and in the prison camps

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    Bataan Death March

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    During World War II in April 1942, over 75,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps after the US surrendered the Bataan Peninsula and Philippines to Japan. Many prisoners were beaten, shot, or beheaded along the five to ten day march. Only around 54,000 made it to the camps alive. In 1944, the US avenged its defeat by invading Leyte in the Philippines under General Douglas MacArthur, and retook the Bataan Peninsula in 1945. The Japanese commander of the invasion, Lieutenant General Homma Masaharu, was later convicted by the US military for being responsible for the abuses during the Bataan Death March and in the prison camps

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    During World War II, in the month of April 9 1442, US surrender to the Japanese the Bataan

    Peninsula and the island of the Philippines. About 75,000 Filipinos and Americans were forced to
    marched a 65 mile to prison camp. They started marching in Mariveles, which is found on the southern
    tip of Bataan Peninsula to San Fernando. Their march took around five to ten days before they reach the
    prison camp. During these days, some Filipinos were beaten, shot and some are beheaded by the
    Japanese. Only about 54,000 prisoners had reached the camp.

    In October 1944, after what happened, US avenged their defeat in the Philippines through
    invading the Leyte. It was led by General Douglas Mc Arthur. And in February 1945 US-Filipino take back
    Bataan Peninsula.

    After the end of the World War II, Lieutenant General Homma Masaharu, the Japanese
    Commander of the invasion on the Philippines, was convicted by the U.S Military for being the one who
    was responsible on the Death March the happened and abused on the Camp O’ Donnell.

    References
    Editors, H. (2009, November 9). Bataan Death March . Retrieved from History :
    https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bataan-death-march

    Norman, M., & Norman, E. (2018). Bataan Death March. Retrieved from Encyclopedia Britannica:
    https://www.britannica.com/event/Bataan-Death-March

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