<P> The 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 60 and 69.6 miles ( 96.6 and 112.0 km ) . 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 . </P>
<P> The 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 60 and 69.6 miles ( 96.6 and 112.0 km ) . 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 . </P>
where did the bataan death march take place
where did the bataan death march take place
from Saysain Point , Bagac , Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell , Capas , Tarlac , via San Fernando , Pampanga , where the prisoners were loaded onto trains
from Saysain Point , Bagac , Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell , Capas , Tarlac , via San Fernando , Pampanga , where the prisoners were loaded onto trains