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>>8782393
This creeps the fuck out of me.

Bataan Death March

[US and filipino POWs] were to be marched 40 km (25 mi) to the central collection point of Balanga, after which they would be marched an additional 50 km (31 mi) to the town of San Fernando. From there, they were to be transferred by rail to Capas, where they would then be marched 14 km (9 mi) to the abandoned military outpost Camp O'Donnell

All told, approximately 5,000–10,000 Filipino and 600–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach Camp O'Donnell.

General Marshall made the following statement about the march:

These brutal reprisals upon helpless victims evidence the shallow advance from savagery which the Japanese people have made. [...] We serve notice upon the Japanese military and political leaders as well as the Japanese people that the future of the Japanese race itself, depends entirely and irrevocably upon their capacity to progress beyond their aboriginal barbaric instincts.