Bataan Death March ( Filipino : '' Martsa ng Kamatayan sa Bataan '' ; Japanese : バターン死の行進 , Hepburn : '' Batān Shi no Kōshin '' ) was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000 – 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war from Saysain Point , Bagac , Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell , Capas , Tarlac , via San Fernando , Pampanga , where the prisoners were loaded onto trains . The transfer began on April 9 , 1942 , after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II . The total distance marched from Mariveles to San Fernando and from the Capas Train Station to Camp O'Donnell is variously reported by differing sources as between . Differing sources also report widely differing prisoner of war casualties prior to reaching Camp O'Donnell : from 5,000 to 18,000 Filipino deaths and 500 to 650 American deaths during the march . The march was characterized by severe physical abuse and wanton killings , and was later judged by an Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime
Japanese war crime
Japanese war crimes
Bataan Death March