MAP OF BATAAN PHILIPPINES

DEATH MARCH KM. 0 MARIVELES BATAAN HISTORY

The Death March of Flipino and American Prisoners of war from Mariveles, and Bagac to Camp O” Donnell, Capas, Tarlac April 1942.

Immediately after the fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942, The USFFI forces were evacuated by the Japanese from the field of battle as prisoners of war. The more than 70,000 Filipino and American troops who had survived the battle of Bataan underwent in this evacuation, The ordeal that history now knows as the death March.

The Death March started from two points in Bataan: on April 10 from Mariveles, on April 11 from Bagac. The Filipino and American troops were marched day and night, under blistering sun or cold night sky, staggering through Cabcaben, Limay, Orion, Pilar and Balanga, where they were given a brief rest and some water, From Balanga, The Prisoners of were organized into groups of 100 to 200 and under guard marched on through were segregated from the Filipino Prisoners of war and marched separately, The march continued northward through Hermosa, to Layac junction, Then Eastward into Pampanga through Lubao, Guagua, Where the Prisoners were rested and given a little food at the National Development Company Compound.

  Bacolor and San Fernando 

Already suffering from Battle fatigue, The Filipino and Americans troops were strained to utter exhaustation by this long march on foot, many were ill, most were feverish, but none high rest, for the enemy was brutal with those who lagged behind. Thousands fell along the way, Townspeople on the roadside risked their lives by slipping food and drink to the Death Marches as they stumbled by.

  In San Fernando, The Death March became a death ride by cargo train when the prisoners were pack so densely into boxcars that many of them perished from suffocation, Those who arrived alive in Capas had still to walk the last and most agonized miles of the Death March: The 6 Kilometers to Camp O" Donnell, Which was become one of the most hellish concentration camps of World War II.

Mount Samat Shrine History

Bataan Peninsula was the scene of harsh fighting between American-Filipino Forces
and the invading japanese forces. on April 09.1942. the Bataan Defenders Surrendered
to the Japanese. About 70,000 U.S. and Filipino Soldiers were captured.

The Shrine of Valor (Dambana ng Kagitingan) atop Mt. Samat in Pilar was built in 1966

in memory of those soldiers of World War II.

It consists of the “Colonnade”, a marble capped structure with an altar, 

esplanade and a museum. Inside the museum you can learn more about the 

battle of Bataan and the Death March that followed. The captured US & Filipino 

soldiers were forced to march more than a hundred kilometers from Bataan to Tarlac.

The Memorial Cross is a towering structure made of concrete, steel and marble.

It is 92 meters high and the arms’ length is 15 meter on each side. It is 555 meters 

above sea level. An elevator goes up to the arms of the cross where the viewing 

galleries are found. The exterior finish of the cross at the base up to an 

11-meter level is capped with “Nabiag Nga Bato” sculptural bas relief’s depicting

significant battles and historical events.

The Shrine is visited annually by war veterans from different places on Bataan Day (April 9) to recall and honor the past.

Where: Mt. Samat is only 130 km away from Manila and travel time is about two to three hours by land and an hour by ferry.

My rating: 8/10 Impressive structure. Mount Samat Shrine is an ideal place to brush up your history lessons or learn more about the battle of Bataan & the Death March. It is a nice one day excursion.

 PICTURES IN MOUNT SAMAT SHRINE
 

 

 

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CORREGIDOR BATAAN HISTORY 

A few hours after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941), Japanese air units from Taiwan attacked Clark Field to destroy the backbone of American air power in the Philippines. Major landings by Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma's Fourteenth Army on Manila on 22 and 24 December caught defending forces under General Douglas MacArthur in a trap, forcing a retreat to the Bataan peninsula. When the Japanese attacked on 7 January 1942, MacArthur's largely Filipino reservist army, backed up by a division of American and Filipino Scout regulars, retreated to a secondary line and then held, inflicting heavy losses.

By February, MacArthur's men were gravely short of food, quinine to combat malaria, and supplies of all sorts. A tight Japanese blockade had isolated the Philippines. In early March, at President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order, MacArthur slipped through the blockade by PT boat to escape to Australia. Homma attacked again on 3 April and quickly cut through the starving defenders. On 9 April 1942 Bataan surrendered; 79,500 men laid down their arms; and many hundreds perished afterward from weakness and brutal treatment by guards on the infamous death march to prison camps in central Luzon.

Corregidor, a fortress island in Manila Bay, held out for three weeks more under MacArthur's former subordinate, General Jonathan M. Wainwright. Japanese artillery and aircraft bombarded the island, forcing thousands to take shelter in tunnels, including the famous Malinta Tunnel, which contained the headquarters, hospital, and nurses' quarters. The Japanese Fourth Division troops broke through on 5 May, inducing Wainwright to surrender the 16,000 defenders the next day. After the war Homma was tried as a war criminal in Manila and executed.

CORREGIDOR BATAAN PICTURES

 

bataan philippines

bataan is a native land in philippines. Dinalupihan to mariveles is the boundary of that. km.0 is started here in mariveles bataan. This location is very beautiful. Many history in bataan about giyera.

bataan philippines

bataan is a native land in philippines. Dinalupihan to mariveles is the boundary of that. km.0 is started here in mariveles bataan. This location is very beautiful. Many history in bataan about giyera.