Bataan Death March | Oral History

Bataan Death March

OH 0100

Survivor of the Bataan campaign. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war duty in north China; fall of Bataan and capture; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-43; Davao Penal Colony, 1943; escape from torpedoed hell ship and rescue by Filipino guerrillas; evacuation by American submarine.

OH 1245

Member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma- Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Tamuan and Tamuang, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Nayok, Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.

OH 0657

Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Fukuoka, Kyushu, 1945; liberation.

OH 0545

Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Moji, 1944-45; A-bomb damage at Nagasaki; liberation.

OH 0091

Businessman, Army veteran, survivor of the Bataan campaign. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Japanese bombing of Clark Field; fall of Bataan and capture; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Yawata steel mill, Honshu; Miyazu, Honshu, 1944-45, and American air raids; liberation.

OH 0815

Pharmacologist, civil servant. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Japanese bombing of Nichols Field; fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942-44; hell ship to Formosa, 1944; liberation.

OH 0065

Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Onomichi, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation.