abstract:The Bataan Death March (Tagalog: Martsa ng Kamatayan sa Bataan, Japanese: ) :ja:バターン死の行進, which began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II.Stanley L.
General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the BataanDeathMarch during World War II, was executed by a U.S. Army firing squad outside Manila.