My Hitch In Hell—A Soldier Recounts the Bataan Death March In WWII
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, after the fall of the Philippines, over 70,000 Americans and Filipinos were taken captive by Japanese forces on the Bataan Peninsula. The death rate of these POWs was well over 30 percent. By contrast, the allies' POWs endured a death rate of three percent. Here to tell his harrowing story of surviving Japanese military savagery is Dr. Lester Tenney, author of My Hitch In Hell. A special thanks to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans for allowing us to use this audio.
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