Joined again by Sayre Payne a business litigation attorney from Cincinnati. In the episode you'll hear Sayre reference a book that he recommends, Flyboys: A True Story of Courage. 10APR1942: Having held out against all odds, nearly 75,000 American and Filipino Soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces after months of brutal fighting with their backs against the wall in the Bataan peninsula. The Japanese forces organized their captives and began to move them north to designated prison camps. The subsequent six days would come to be known as the Bataan Death March. Stripped of all personal belongings, the POWs were marched in the intense heat with little to no water. As prisoners would fall from exhaustion they could expect to be bayoneted or shot on the spot. No meals were offered and beatings were expected at every turn. By the time the element finally reached their camps, nearly 20,000 had perished. The Bataan Death March is a dark time in American and Filipino history, a great sacrifice made by many in the opening months of the second world war.

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