Following their surrender at the Battle of Bataan, American and Filipino prisoners-of-war begin the Bataan Death March. The march, led by Japanese captors, forced starving and injured prisoners to hike north through the jungle while being beaten, starved, and sometimes executed by the Japanese.
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