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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Dr. Lester Tenney, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, was a dear friend of mine who passed away in 2017. On this anniversary, I remember the moving speech he delivered in 2000 at a memorial ...