The Tragedy of Bataan DVD - AV Item

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• On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor. Within 24 hours, the Japanese forces also attacked Hong Kong, Thailand, Wake Island, Guam, and the Philippine Islands, most of which quickly surrendered. However, the American-Filipino Defenders in the Philippines resisted their powerful enemy for several months despite the lack of supplies or reinforcements. Adopting a "Europe First" policy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered commanding General Douglas MacArthur to escape to Australia.
  
  Finally, facing widespread disease and lack of supplies, medicines, and food, Major General Edward P. King surrendered the troops on the Bataan Peninsula of Luzon to the Imperial Japanese. The 75,000 men were treated as captives, not as prisoners-of-war by the Japanese and were forced to march from the Bataan Peninsula to a prison campground 66 miles to the north known as Camp O'Donnell, which became known as "The Bataan Death March."
  
  Featuring first-person accounts from fifteen survivors of the conflict, this poignant story is also told through an unpublished diary, cartoons, and never before seen propaganda footage. This documentary chronicles the fall of the Philippines and the horrors of The Bataan Death March in the early months of World War II.
  
  This DVD features subtitles in English (SDH)