Who Is To Blame For The Filipino-American Death

It all started with rising tensions between the United States and Japan during WWII. Philippines was involved. Both countries stated that they were heading for a battle between March and June of 1941. Japan was a small island country and wanted to become a stronger country. The aggressive Japan had ambitions of taking the entire Pacific Rim, as part of a greater Japanese Empire. The Philippines was set in the middle of their ambition's path. They had to fight harshly. There are thousands Filipino National Guardsmen from small towns around the country joined thousands of voluntarily Army forces in the summer of 1941 in the Philippines.

The 6thof January 1941. A twenty-one year old young man has decided to volunteer and join the Filipino-American …show more content…
Before it started, a lot of them are ready and quite prepared. Fearing certain of thousands of American and Filipino injured in military hospitals. Many of them thought that the fight could no longer continue. Bataan commander General Edward King was forced to giving up his troops with the wishes of many who wants to continue to fight. Later, he took the blame for giving up his men from responsibility. The events were really bad than any imagined. They were already prisoners when the Bataan Death March began. American and Filipino forces began to be put together in the large fields outside the Mariveles. For Japanese, it was bad. There were more prisoners than they had expected and they had to move them out of the south to the north. The Japanese were preparing their attack on the off-shore island of Corregidor where American forces were still holding on, including hundreds who flee Bataan. A forced march became one way to move them. They needed food and medicine. There were more than two, but not a lot of starting points along the march. Around seventy-six seven hundred American-Filipino soldiers began the sixty-five mile march from Bataan Peninsula to San Fernando. A few Filipino were killed. Americans and Filipinos were affected by the sun for hours where soldiers were forced to look towards the sun, falling out was really bad. Others were cruelly insulted by the Japanese, people who capture other people, who hang …show more content…
Many of them are injured and shot. It was an extraordinary difference and experience of themselves. Disease, tiredness, and pain along with the cramped conditions. And all the lack of the most good supplies was given to one of the highest rates of Prisoners Of War in the battle. Most of those who died within the first weeks were under the age of thirty. Most Filipinos was set free by the end of 1942, but their people and the Philippines were under of commitment by a harsh force that ruled by fear. Many of them continued to fight against the Japanese after they were free. Everyone was settled in the ships afterward. The conditions on the ships were quite difficult when they went in. A few weeks were spent in the crowded wet parts of the ships. There was no room to sit and most people had diarrhea or sick. There was only little to no water and food was given to the men during that time. Most of them was mad. Many of the soldiers ran out of food. Almost everyone was absolutely thirsty, and hungry. Others was choked to death who forced themselves to drink urine. Most surviving Prisoners Of War were recaptured. Some of them decided to swim to safety and report the conditions in the Japanese prison camps. Freedom for most whom survived came by August 1945, although some of them were already free earlier in the year. Some ex-prisoners of war had reported. Seeing