American soldiers resting during the Bataan death march, May 1942, photo 1 of 3

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Caption     American soldiers resting during the Bataan death march, May 1942, photo 1 of 3 ww2dbase
Date 20 May 1942
Photographer    Unknown
 
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives
Identification Code   127-GR-111-114539
 
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Photos on Same Day 20 May 1942
Colorized By WW2DB     Colorized with Adobe Photoshop
 
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1. Jack Tyler says:
25 May 2009 04:37:22 PM

Sir,
Re:25 photo of the invasion of the Philippines-Bataan Death Marth - 3 Mis labels.
Major General Edward P. King commander of the Bataan Defense Force surrendered on April 9th and I Corps Commander Brig. General Albert Jones surrendered on the morning of April 11. The photo caption described as Americans resting on the Death March - May 1942. Is in error. They may have been troops on Corregidor which surrendered on May 6th -- but the Death March was long over by then. The Corregidor men were taken by rail to a different camp. Also, the photo of a line Americans on their backs seems to be in error in describing them as dead Americans - close examination shows they are resting with their feet elevated on top of their socks placed on top their shoes. some have a wet(?) cloth on their forhead and a medic with a red cross armband is standing over them. Finally the label of the photo showing Filipinos carrying improvised litters has been described as being in error. Rather than carrying sick/wounded men on the death march it is a picture of a Filipine burial detail at Camp O'Donnel after the conclusion of the Death March --- The web site of the Battling Bastards of Bataan - a veterans organization has cited the mis-description of the last photo.

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