14.6°N 120.5°E Pacific Fall of the Philippines & Bataan
Briefing
Japan's conquest of the Philippines ended in April 1942 with the surrender of some 76,000 starving American and Filipino troops on Bataan — the largest capitulation in American history. The Death March that followed killed thousands on the road to the camps, and the prisoners' three-year ordeal became the war's defining atrocity story for the American public.
Books Covering This Event (3)
Popular History
We Band of Angels Elizabeth Norman · 1999
★ 4.4 Accessible The American nurses trapped on Bataan and Corregidor — the first large group of US women in combat, then three years as POWs.
Ghost Soldiers Hampton Sides · 2001
★ 4.5 Accessible The true story of the raid to rescue the survivors of the Bataan Death March from a Japanese POW camp in the.
Tears in the Darkness Michael & Elizabeth Norman · 2009
★ 4.6 Intermediate The Bataan Death March and its aftermath, told through one American POW — and, unusually, his Japanese captors.