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The Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was a forced march of American and Filipino personnel (both military and civilian) who were taken prisoner at the surrender of Allied forces to the Japanese Fourteenth Army at the end of the Battle of Bataan on 9 April 1942. The march, which continued for several days under a blazing tropical sun, went from the tip of the Bataan peninsula more than 60 miles north to Camp O’Donnell and was conducted under extremely brutal conditions. The prisoners were given very little food and water, and those who fell by the wayside or couldn’t keep up the pace (or even asked for water) were summarily shot, bayoneted, or beheaded. Others were murdered by Japanese soldiers for no particular reason at all. Between 60,000 and 80,000 prisoners began the march; only about 54,000 survived. The dead included several hundred Americans and from 5,500 to as many as 18,000 Filipinos (the Japanese didn’t bother to keep casualty records, and later death estimates by Allied sources vary widely). At the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, the Bataan Death March was adjudged a war crime for which the Japanese Fourteenth Army commander, Gen. Masaharu Homma, was subsequently executed.
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1st Lt. Edwin W. Tucker 12th Medical Regiment Medical Corps After completing my tour of duty with the US Army in Germany in May 1975, I had the honor and pleasure of serving under Dr. Tucker from late 1975 to mid-1977, when I was working as a civilian counselor with the US Army's 5th General Hospital Drug and Alcohol Service in Bad Cannstatt, Germany. Dr. Tucker (also a civilian, but who was a WW2 veteran) was the Chief of Service and a well-known and highly regarded authority in the field of substance abuse treatment.
During one of our many conversations, I recall his telling me that he was serving as a young US Army doctor in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded in December 1941. He was taken prisoner at the surrender of US forces there in early April 1942, survived the infamous Bataan Death March to Camp O'Donnell, and was then transferred to the Hakodate POW Camp-Babai on Hokkaido Island, where he was held for the rest of the war.
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Cpl. Luther Carter "Luke" Morgan 59th Coast Artillery Regiment Luke Morgan was part of the Bataan Death March and was held in Bilibad Prison.
After he was released and returned home, he married and had 3 children.
He suffered from horrible nightmares and was not the same person as he was when he enlisted.
Finally he could no longer bare the nightly terrors, especially when he tried to hurt his wife during one of his nightmares.
He ended his life and was greatly missed by family and friends.
No one could imagine or understand what atrocities Luke suffered from while in captivity.
He was a great man and served his country well.
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S/Sgt. Robert Leroy Aldrich HQ 2nd Bty. 200th AA Coast Regiment Robert Aldrich was held in POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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1st Lt. Edwin W. Tucker 12th Medical Regiment Medical Corps After completing my tour of duty with the US Army in Germany in May 1975, I had the honor and pleasure of serving under Dr. Tucker from late 1975 to mid-1977, when I was working as a civilian counselor with the US Army's 5th General Hospital Drug and Alcohol Service in Bad Cannstatt, Germany. Dr. Tucker (also a civilian, but who was a WW2 veteran) was the Chief of Service and a well-known and highly regarded authority in the field of substance abuse treatment.
During one of our many conversations, I recall his telling me that he was serving as a young US Army doctor in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded in December 1941. He was taken prisoner at the surrender of US forces there in early April 1942, survived the infamous Bataan Death March to Camp O'Donnell, and was then transferred to the Hakodate POW Camp-Babai on Hokkaido Island, where he was held for the rest of the war.
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Cpl. Luther Carter "Luke" Morgan 59th Coast Artillery Regiment Luke Morgan was part of the Bataan Death March and was held in Bilibad Prison.
After he was released and returned home, he married and had 3 children.
He suffered from horrible nightmares and was not the same person as he was when he enlisted.
Finally he could no longer bare the nightly terrors, especially when he tried to hurt his wife during one of his nightmares.
He ended his life and was greatly missed by family and friends.
No one could imagine or understand what atrocities Luke suffered from while in captivity.
He was a great man and served his country well.
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S/Sgt. Robert Leroy Aldrich HQ 2nd Bty. 200th AA Coast Regiment Robert Aldrich was held in POW Camp Fukuoka 17 in Japan
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