The Bataan Death March 1942 : Causation, Progress, Completion, Recollection and Associated Repercussions

• Autore: East Bob
• Pubblicazione: Bradford : , : Ethics International Press Limited, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942; World War, 1939-1945
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Author's Note -- Epigraph -- Previous Books Written about the Bataan Death March -- List of Illustrations -- Fig. 9.6. Showing a Filipina helping a wounded U.S. soldier, and Filipino on the Bataan Death March. -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Attack on Clark and Iba Field -- Del Monte Airfield after Clark and Iba -- Early land attacks on the Philippines -- Chapter One The Battle of Bataan -- Brief background to the Battle of Bataan -- Battle of Trail Two -- Battle of the Points -- Battle of the Pockets -- Chapter Two Surrender of Bataan and Corregidor -- Balanga Elementary School and the Bataan WWII Museum -- The Resistance and Fall of Corregidor -- Chapter Three The Prelude to the Beginning of the Bataan Death March -- Chapter Four The Death March from Mariveles, Cabcaben, Orion and Balanga -- Mariveles to Cabcaben -- Cabcaben to Orion -- Bagac to Orion/Balanga -- The Pantingan River Massacre -- Mount Samat National Shrine -- Chapter Five The Death March through Balanga, Orani, Layac, Lubao, Guagua, and San Fernando -- San Fernando -- Chapter Six Arrival at Camp O'Donnell, Internment and Transferring -- Camp O'Donnell Exposed -- The Raid at Cabanatuan -- Chapter Seven Trial and Death Sentence of General Masaharu Homma -- Trial Controversy -- The Execution -- Summation -- Chapter Eight Abridged List of Filipino and U. S. Survivors of the Bataan Death March -- Chapter Nine Death March Markers -- Obelisks -- F.A.M.E. -- Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell -- Philippine & -- United States Memorials to the Bataan Death March -- Philippine Memorials-not exhaustive -- Capas National Shrine. Tarlac -- Mount Samat "Shrine of Valor" Dambana ng Kagitingan -- Death March Markers: Obelisks -- United States Memorials and Plaques-not exhaustive -- Bataan Memorial Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ; Chapter Ten Death Tolls on the March -- Exaggerations -- General Leslie Groves -- Citation awarded to Major General Richard Groves -- Fact -- Water: true or false recollections? -- Conclusion -- Addendum -- Bibliographies and References.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is predominately about the Bataan Death March that followed the capitulation and surrender of the Philippine and United States armed forces on 09 April 1942 in Luzon, Philippines. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in late December 1941, and the subsequent bombing of Clark Air Base, Japanese forces landed in Northern Luzon, and worked their way down to the capital, Manilla. Early in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur ordered all the Allied forces in Luzon to proceed south to the Bataan Peninsula. Both he and General Wainwright and 10,000 allied troops went further south to Corregidor Island. (This left General King in charge of all the allied troops in the Bataan Peninsula). Throughout January, February, and March 1942, the Philippine and U.S. troops underwent extreme hardship and, although asking General MacArthur for permission to surrender, which was refused, General King, on 09 April 1942 surrendered to the Japanese. This then triggered the beginning of the Bataan Death March--a 70 kilometre forced march to San Fernando, a train trip of 2-3 hours, and finally another 13 kilometre walk to the O'Donnell P.O.W. Camp in Capas. What followed was the death of thousands of prisoners of war both on the Bataan Death March and in the years following, until the Japanese surrendered in September 1945. The book will provide a valuable resource for students and researchers of modern history; particularly the Second World War, and the War in the Pacific,1941-1945.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Bataan Death March 1942
• ISBN: 9781804417621
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911151223003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II