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Foreword

Introduction



The Road to Bataan

The Bataan Death March

The San Fernando Train Ride

Camp O'Donnell

Clark Field Concentration Camp

Bilibid Prison

The Hell Ships

Japan

The Nomachi Express

Camp Nomachi

Surrender, Liberation, and Repatriation

The Homecoming



Epilogue

In Memoriam



Extra:
Bataan Death March Route Map



Extra:
Philippine Department of Tourism



Extra:
Star Tribune:
March of Time

("Article of Interest" for 4-6 Grade Basic Skills Reading Test Prep)



Extra:
Footprints in Courage
(A Book About Alf Larson and the Bataan Death March)



Extra:
Alf's Letter to God



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 Comment by Jill on 02/03/2010 @ 09:00:15 GMT

Hello..I am a 3rd year high school student and I\\\'m wondering if me and my groupmates could ask for permission in using the interview of Mr.Rick Peterson with Mr. Alf Larson. We have a project in our Social Studies subject and are wondering whether we could use your interview as our resource.We also have questions of our own, but we are hoping for your permission first. We hope you could give us a prompt reply. Thank you,

 Comment by Jeannette Gunn on 01/25/2010 @ 02:56:42 GMT

I am looking for information on Capt. Kenneth Paul Wetzel.  He was medical personnel.  He was killed possibly while trying to save POW\\\\\\\'s a Japanese prison ship and was part of the Death March before transfer to the prison ship.  His sister Yvonne passed away  at 95 taking much of the story with her.  We would like to put the whole story together and if possible confirm one of the two accounts that appear in Naval records.  Because if he did die trying to save POW\\\\\\\'s then he deserves his star.  Thank you.

 Comment by Eena on 01/14/2010 @ 00:04:10 GMT

Hello my name is eena i am a 10 yr old 5th grade student and doing a project on the bataan march.if anybody can help me with an interview or some good facts i would really appreciate it so much. this is very important to me because i am a filipino and was born there too. i would love to grasp a part of my history for future references if you can give me an insight or some facts pls. contact me via email at eenanonot@yahoo.com thank you so much!

 Comment by Tom Jackson on 01/12/2010 @ 13:01:06 GMT

Thanks for your service.

 Comment by stenotholus on 01/12/2010 @ 04:20:58 GMT

Re:
Everett Allred.
Yes, his ashes were returned to the US government and buried in the Manila American Cemetery.  Go to the American Battle Monuments web search page:
http://www.abmc.gov/search/wwii.php

 Comment by Carol Lynds on 01/04/2010 @ 07:49:04 GMT

My great uncle, Everett Allred survived the March of Bataan and died at Camp Hirahata.  We have a letter from the Buddhist Priest at the Jugangi Temple, dated 1966, stating that his ashes were sent home.  We had never known this.  Does anyone know if this is actually true or if their ashes were left in Japan?  I have the original letter and 2 contrived postcards from the camp. clynds@sbcglobal.net

 Comment by Michelle Houtz on 12/30/2009 @ 06:05:53 GMT

My husband's great, great uncle Lt. Col. John H. Ball survived and came home.  We have nothing left of his legacy except what i can find on the Internet or in the occasional book.  Did anyone know him and could tell us about him?  mahoutz@yahoo.com

 Comment by Steve Ronk on 11/26/2009 @ 03:30:20 GMT

CPL Karl D. Tobey, USArmy, passed away in Reno, NV on 18 NOV 2009.  His eternal resting place is at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetary, Fernley, NV

 Comment by Bill Lowe on 11/20/2009 @ 22:20:47 GMT

My uncle, Henry Clay Carter, was captured 5-7-42, imprisoned in camp 521, survived the death march and was liberated 2-20-45 my first birth day.  If anyone has any info about 521 or uncle Hen, please contact me. lowekb@sbcglobal.net

 Comment by Bill Lowe on 11/20/2009 @ 22:13:34 GMT

imprisoned in camp 521

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