QUICKLY SCAN THE PHOTO.

WHAT PARTICULAR FEATURES STICK OUT OR WHAT

DID YOU NOTICE FIRST?

• At the photo the particular features stick out are the people walking and carrying dead bodies.
They were like giving respect to the people who died.
TYPE OF PHOTO (CHECK ALL THAT APPLY)
PORTRAIT LANDSCAPE AERIAL/SATELLITE ACTION
ARCHITECTURAL EVENT FAMILY PANAROMIC
POSED CANDID DOCUMENTARY SELFIE
OTHER TYPE (PLEASE SPECIFY)
• Type of photo applied in the picture are the following: portrait, architectural, posed, landscape,
event, candid, documentary and action. This 8 type of photo was identified as dead and wounded
being carried by fellow prisoners during the Bataan death March. The photograph has long
symbolized the Bataan death March and this will help us to recognize and to identify as an
evidence what happened during in that event.
• The type of photo applied in the picture are the following. Landscape because the poster has
visible features of an area of a country side. Event because it is captured by an occasion in Bataan
death march. Candid because the poster is created without creating the posed appearance.
Documentary and action because based on the picture it represents the people who joined the
death march that is often to use in reportage.
IS THERE A CAPTION /TITLE?

• Sometimes, photographs would also include captions or titles to guide the audience to see the
picture in a specific perspective based on how the photographer would like the viewers to portray
the picture’s message. Some captions also can provide additional information about the
photograph that would explain the main point of the photo to help the audience understand the
photo’s message more but in this photograph’s case, there are no captions nor titles that can be
seen in it.
OBSERVE ITS PARTS (LIST THE PEOPLE, OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES YOU SEE)

PEOPLE OBJECTS ACTIVITIES

CORPS STRETCHERS AS PART OF HUMANITY AND
RESPECT, THEY WERE CARRYING
THE INJURED AND DEFUNCT
BODIES OF THEIR FELLOW
CREWS.
DEFUNCT BODIES UNIFORMS SAVING THE PHYSIQUES IN THE
FORM OF THEIR
RESPONSIBILITIES.
INJURED BODIES THE PICTURE EMBODIED HOW
TREMENDOUS THE HEROES OF
A COLONY.
•

TRY TO MAKE SENSE OF IT.

1. Who took the photo?

• The poster shows the a burial detail of American and Filipino prisoners of war uses improvised
litters to carry those their comrades who, from the lack of food or water on the march from
Bataan, fell along the road.

2. Where is it from?

• The image/photo is from the Filipino's and American's who survived from the Bataan death
march, because they wanted to know the brutality of the Japanese and it can also be from the
Japanese invaders who make the Bataan death march, because they wanted to have evidences,
that there were times that American's and Filipino's surrendered to them.

3. When is it from?

• Bataan Death March: April 1942. The surrendered Filipinos and Americans soon were rounded
up by the Japanese and forced to march some 65 miles from Mariveles, on the southern end of
the Bataan Peninsula, to San Fernando.

4. What was the happening at the time in history this photo was taken?

• After the April 9, 1942 U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of
Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and
American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.
The marchers made the trek in intense heat and were subjected to harsh treatment by Japanese
guards. Thousands perished i what become known as the Bataan Death March.

5. Why was it taken?

• This photo Bataan Death March" to see the events during American and Filipino forces fought
from an untenable position until formally surrendering to the Japanese on April 9. The Japanese
immediately began to march some 76,000 prisoners (12,000 Americans, the remainder Filipinos)
northward into captivity along a route of death. When three American officers escaped a year
later, the world learned of the unspeakable atrocities suffered along the 60-mile journey that
became known as the Bataan Death March.
• Japanese butchery, disease, exposure to the blazing sun, lack of food, and lack of water took the
lives of approximately 5,200 Americans along the way. Many prisoners were bayoneted, shot,
beheaded or just left to die on the side of the road. "A Japanese soldier took my canteen, gave
the water to a horse, and threw the canteen away," reported one escapee. "The stronger were
not permitted to help the weaker. We then would hear shots behind us." The Japanese forced
the prisoners to sit for hours in the hot sun without water. "Many of us went crazy and several
died."

Use it as historical evidence

1. What did you find from the document that you might not learn anywhere else?

• The Bataan Death March is a massive match in American and Filipino history. Not absolutely
used to be it a massive loss for us, then again it was once as soon as the greatest provide up in
 American history. All the prisoners of combat beneath the Japanese had been used as slaves in
horrible stipulations and little food; barely surviving.
• During World War II after the Japan bombing of U.S. naval base Pearl Harbor, Japan began to
take over the Philippines on December 7, 1941. During their invasion, Japan managed to take
over the Philippine capital, Manila, the vicinity which each and every U.S. and Philippine armies
had been taken as Prisoners of War (POW).

2. What other documents or historical evidence are you going to use to help you understand the event
or topic?

• We use the primary source as our material and historical evidence for us to understand the
event or topic. It is because Bataan Death March that has unfiltered information. The the
pictures given also help us to identify, illustrations as an evidence what happen in the Bataan
Death March. So the students will recognize and understand and explaining that events in
history in Bataan Death March.