• Japanese troops invade Phillippines on Dec. 8, 1941
About 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula of the island of Luzon surrendered to the Japanese Army on April 9, 1942
• Prisoners were forced to march 65 miles in intense heat to prison camps.
• Thousands died or were killed by Japanese guards in what became known as the Bataan Death March.
Source: History Channel website
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An event next month will honor those 76,000 American and Filipino soldiers who endured a 65-mile forced march in the Philippines as prisoners of the Japanese during World War II.