; (6) Ninety-eight percent of the United States POWs of Imperial Japan fought in the heroic battles of Guam, Wake Island, Sunda Strait, Halsey-Doolittle Raid, Bataan, and Corregidor, all within the first six months of World War II. (7) Most of the United States airmen, infantrymen, sailors, and Marines surrendered in defense of the Netherlands East Indies in March 1942 were sent to be slave laborers on the Thai-Burma Death Railway or at construction projects in Changi, Singapore. (8) On April 9, 1942, approximately 12,000 United States military personnel and 66,000 Filipino soldiers became POWs with the surrender of the American-Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. (9) April 9, 1942, marked the beginning of the infamous Bataan Death March where the Imperial Japanese Army forced all American and Filipino forces from Marviveles or Bagac up the Bataan Peninsula on a three-part, three-province, nearly 100-mile trek north to the makeshift POW facility Camp O’Donnell at Capas, Tarlac. An estimated 650 American and 5,000–10,000 Filipino soldiers died on the Bataan Death March, while hundreds of men remain unaccounted for. (10) On May 6, 1942, Corregidor Island, then operating as the military command center for all the Philippines, United States Forces in the Philippines (USFIP), was surrendered. Nearly 10,000 American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines as well as more than 3,000 Filipino soldiers and nurses became POWs of Imperial Japan. (11) The May 6, 1942, fall of Corregidor Island and subsequent surrender of all the Philippines Islands marked the end of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet