Hours after that surrender, tens of thousands of Filipino and American troops began the Bataan Death March, a five-day, 65-mile trek to a prison camp to the north, during which they were denied ...

March 11: General MacArthur is ordered to leave the Philippines. April 9: U.S. surrenders Luzon. Bataan death march: the Japanese march prisoners of war five to nine days north to Camp O'Donnell.

What followed was one of the worst atrocities in modern wartime history — the Bataan Death March. U.S. Gen. Edward P. King discusses surrender, 1942. Photo by U.S. Army. During the Battle of ...