American and Filipino prisoners of war endured the 112-kilometer Bataan Death March 75 years ago. Kilometer markers, such as this one in Samal, are produced and maintained by FAME (Filipino ...

A relief depicts the 1942 Bataan Death March on the Death March Memorial in Capas, Philippines. Brad Lendon/CNN Eventually, four other POWs would join Overbeck aboard that lifeboat.

The Bataan death march was an horrific event that killed 20,000 prisoners, after the fall of the Philippines in 1942.

A relief depicts the 1942 Bataan Death March on the Death March Memorial in Capas, Philippines. - Brad Lendon/CNN Eventually, four other POWs would join Overbeck aboard that lifeboat.

‘‘Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath’’ (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 480 pages, $30), by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman: ...

About 75,000 prisoners were forced to march 65 miles with little food or water during the Bataan Death March. People who marched were subjected to severe abuse, and those who fell behind were ...

After the surrender of joint U.S. - Filipino forces at the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines on April 9th, 1942, the Japanese forced 76,000 exhausted prisoners of war to march to the Camp O ...

They’re in training for what will be a 26-mile hike, carrying a heavy load, held in honor of the thousands of World War II soldiers, who walked and died in the original Bataan Death March in 1942.

But Steven Taylor isn’t afraid of the countless hours of conditioning. He and Jonathan Dawson and David Pyle are getting ready for the 2025 Bataan Memorial Death March in New Mexico.

He survived the Bataan Death March, Japanese “death ships,” and POW camps, according to his obituary. After the war, he served with the 82nd Airborne Division Pathfinder platoon.