The Death of a Japanese Prisoner of War

1,485 American and British and Australian and New Zealand prisoners of war who were herded into a special prison camp in Manchuria at Mukden. The route the 1,000 American prisoners took to Mukden began with what became known as the Batan death march. They were subjected to beatings killings forced marches during the heat of the day We were deprived of food water and any medical attention whatsoever Papi Welchl remembered they were penned in two camps in the Philippines Hundreds more died both in the camp and the And from suffocation as more than 100 crammed into box cars on the journey from one camp to another.