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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Table of Contents .
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Bibliography
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Preliminary Outline
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Chapter I
The Problem and Its Background
A. Introduction
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D. Definition of Terms
1. Death March - Is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or
deportees with the intent to kill, brutalize, weaken and/or demoralize as
many of the captives as possible along the way.
2. Prisoner of War A person who has been captured and imprisoned by the
enemy in war.
3. Guerilla Fighters Soldiers that escaped or who hide away from the
Japanese during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. A small
group of soldiers who is specialized in military tactics like ambushes.
4. Torture The action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a
punishment or to force them to do.
5. Camp ODonnell The camp where the Japanese took their POWs.
6. World War A war involving many large nations all over the world.
7. Allied Power A major alliance of countries consisting US, United
Kingdom, France and Russia against the Axis Power of Germany
8. Peninsula A piece of land that almost surrounded by water.
9. Surrender Cease resistance to an enemy or opponent.
10. Water Buffalo The carabao; The national animal of the Philippines.
Chapter II
Review of Related Literature
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weapons and valuables and told to march to Balanga, Bataan. Some of the POWs
were beaten, mistreated and bayoneted to death and in the first day of the march on
their way to Camp O Donnell in Capas, Tarlac, allegedly the Japanese soldiers
executed 300+ soldiers near the Pantingan river.
It was added by Tom Lansford, a professor in University of Southern
Mississipi and author of the book World War II in Pacific : An Encyclopedia, that the
POWs receive only a little amount of food and water and some died along the way from
heat, dehydration, and hunger. Some POWs just drank water from filthy water buffalo
wallows on the side of the roads, but if without permission from the Japanese, mostly
the prisoners got shot or killed by the Japanese if they tried to drink from the wallows.
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According to the film, I have watch, The Great Raid a film by John
Dahl, most of the prisoners was not treated humanely. The Japanese soldiers
burn the prisoners even bury alive too and they barely got food, medecines and
water, and alot of people is dying because of the poor sanitation in the Prisoner
Camp.
In addition, mostly the Japanese just dug out mass graves in the
surrounding area of the camp for the prisoners who have died. The prisoners
were forced to do hard labors too without resting, but reportedly too that many
prisoners have escaped the camp but some are unlucky that get caught by the
Japanese and were executed.
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Chapter III
Conclusion and Recommendation
Conclusion
In conclusion, the life during the the Japanese Occupation of the Philippine
Islands, were really hard, according to the veterans and survivors of the World War II in
the Philippines, that they suffered greatly just because to survive and fight for their
country and to see their family again, and to the soldiers now fighting in other land this
story will serve as an inspiration to them to survive.
Recommendation
I recommend this research about Bataan Death March to those who are
interested in History of the Philippines on World War II in Pacific, this was one of the
bloodiest war crime of the Japanese soldiers in the pacific. The readers and students
should read more of history, so they will know about the history of their country and
about the world.
Bibliography
The Great Raid, John Dahl, Miramax Films, 2005
Jennifer Rosenberg, (August, 2007), The Bataan Death March, About Education
(Online), optout@about.com
http://www.en.wikipedia.org, Bataan Death March, February 22, 2015.
Lansford, Tom. World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia New York, NY: Garland
Publishing Incorporated, 2001
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