Homa Masaharu

During the times of WWII, a series of brutal men were attempting to control the world: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Benito Mussolini. That’s just some of the examples from other occurring genocide in the World. In this case the Japanese, there are men involved that go by the name of Hedeki Tojo, Edward King Jr., and Homma Masaharu. At the end of it all Homma Masaharu was help responsible for the death march, “war crime” and was finally executed by a firing squad on the day of April 3rd, 1946. These men listed before were all involved in taking over the Americans, and Filipinos on a 65-mile Death March, from the Southern end of the Bataan Peninsula, all the way to San Fernando (Networks, 2016). This took place several hours right after the …show more content…
In addition to that the American and Filipino defenders of Luzon, which is where the island where Manila is located, were also forced to make their way to the Bataan Peninsula. At the end of the three months, the Japanese invaded and combined US and Filipino army, despite a lack of naval and air support (Networks, 2016). At the start of this the Japanese were very successful, because of how well the Japanese had outnumbered the United States and Filipino forces. These forces held for 99 days, and were forced to surrender to the Japanese on April 9th 1942 (Alchin, 2016). The Bataan Death March consisted of 66 miles, which is also 106km, journey, all including 12,000 Americans and the rest were Filipinos (Alchin, 2016). Now not only did the Japanese just target the Americans and the Filipinos, the Death March also included 75,000 Japanese prisoners of war. They included their own people. During this march, it was described to have “severe physical abuse, atrocities” which was done by all the Japanese leaders. The Japanese prisoners on this march were beaten, shot, bayoneted, and in several other cases they were beheaded (Alchin,