Bataan Death March at 80: POWs Deserve Commemorating

On April 9, 1942, the United States experienced its largest military surrender, followed by the infamous Bataan Death March. Around 76,000 American and Filipino soldiers, already weakened by months of fighting on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines with no supplies, were taken as POWs by the Japanese. They were then forced to march 65 miles to a prison camp, where thousands perished along the way.