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In April 1942, the Japanese army forced over 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war to make an arduous march. In the burning sun, they were made to walk one hundred kilometres to reach a train that was to take them to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Timeline. December 7, 1941. Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, leading the U.S. to enter World War II. February 19, 1942. President Franklin D. Roosevelts signs Executive Order 9066, providing for the exclusion of any person from any area at the discretion of the military. March 2, 1942.
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Historian David M. Kennedy has summarized figures regarding the brutal treatment of American POWs by the Japanese. “Ninety percent of American prisoners of war in the Pacific reported being beaten,” Kennedy states. “More than a third died.
By June 1942, most of the estimated 27,000 Americans ultimately held as military POWs of Imperial Japan had been surrendered. By the War’s end, roughly 12,000 Americans POWs had died in Japan’s squalid POW camps, in the fetid holds of “hellships,” or in slave labor camps owned by Japanese companies.
For the Japanese soldier fighting in World War II, the worst humiliation was capture by the enemy. So when American servicemen surrendered, many in the early days of the war on the Philippines, their new captors felt only contempt for them, projecting their own culture onto enemy combatants.
