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Events on Thursday 9 April 1942 1
1942Fall of Bataan and the Bataan Death MarchCaptured US and Filipino troops forced on a brutal marchAbout 75,000 American and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula surrendered to Japan on 9 April. The prisoners were forced to march roughly 100 km to prison camps, with little food or water. Thousands died from beatings, executions, disease and exhaustion.