This is hallowed ground, scene of one of the notorious and saddest events in the history of war. Im oliver north. This is war stories. During world war ii, this was the site of camp odonnell. It was here in the spring of 1942 that the death march came to an end. For the survivors already suffering from disease and malnutrition, their ordeal was just beginning. In the next 40 days, more than 1600 of them would die at the hands of their brutal captors. During world war ii, over 130,000 u. S. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and guardsmen fell into the hands of our nations enemies. 17,000 of those brave souls died in captivity. Yet even in the bleakest of circumstances, many of them managed to fight on. Tonight, the heroes who survived against overwhelming odds. Join us for prisoners of the rising sun. We had little food. We we would talk about food a lot. There was a desperation. All the prisoners are dying here. Please send us food. And 60 years later, it sends a shiver down my spine.
Its completion by december of 1943. But allied bombings on ports in burma had exposed japanese ships and cargo to attack. There was one solution. The railway would have to be finished sooner. The japanese ushered in a time period called speedo in october 1943. And thats when the death toll on the railway accelerated. Speedo which meant out came the whip in a big way. Everything had to be done double speed. Move three meters of rock in one day. From now on its six meters. The pace became horrific. Guards using whips and bamboo rods on the men, beating them sometimes so they dropped on the tracks and couldnt go on. To keep up the pace, more slave labor would be needed. 900 dutch were added to speed up things. The son of a schoolteacher, 19yearold dick van zone was born in holland but raised in indonesia. Taken prisoner in march of 42, he arrived in february of 43. During the speedo period, the men slaved sometimes up to 20 hours a day in sweltering heat with very little food. The food wa
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war stories with oliver north continues right now. oliver: on the fourth anniversary of pearl harbor, evidence of nazi brutality played before a shocked courtroom in nuremberg. 5,000 miles away, robert and his boss joseph keenan touched down in tokyo to start their jobs as war crimes prosecutors for the imtfe, the international military tribunal of the far east. the u.s. team on that plane, we were inviting in macarthur s name and president s name, the other nations to join us. keenan was very much against inviting the soviet union, but i think the white house ordered him to do it. oliver: that very same day macarthur received word from manila. five members of his military commission delivered had a guilty verdict against the tiger of malaya, separate from the tokyo trials this was the first war crimes conviction of warld. world war ii. i knew nothing about mistreatments of civilians in manila. it was probably a flawed case. the general had been the commander in