Death March Markers – Philippine-Sailor

Category: Death March Markers

Death March Markers have been established in Central Luzon to remember and to commemorate the cruel and inhumane treatments of the Allied POWs in the hand of the Imperial Japanese captors in WWII. They are established to remind us of the unspeakable sufferings and death of these POWs.

Capas Death March Monument in 2024

#C05 picture is a front view of the Capas Death March Monument. —————————————————————– Long before the Capas National Shrine was established, Philippine Authorities built the Capas Death March Monument along Gen. MacArthur Highway. And long before the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway was built I have visited Capas Monument and over past decades I lost the pictures I […]

Capas National Shrine, POW Camp O’Donnell, 2024-12-19

#W53 to #W78 pictures are of the obelisk, the wall with the names, the plaques and the grounds next to this Wall and Obelisk WWII Death March Memorial. The Capas National Shrine, located in the area of the former WWII POW Camp O’Donnell, was visited by friends on the 19th Dec. 2024 and we […]

Death March Markers, Capas to O’Donnell, #106 to #112

#W01 to #W05 images are of DMM #106 at the Capas Railroad Station and #W02 is a Google Earth graph, marked up for the DMM location, from the Capas Rail Road Station to the POW Camp O’Donnell. The sponsor for this Death-March-Marker (DMM) is the Battling Bastards of Bataan Association. ————————————————————- After the Allied POWs, […]

Capas Railroad Station, Death March Landmark

#01. The Capas Philippine National Railroad (PNR) Station before WWII, captured from the Internet. ———————————————————— The Capas Railroad Station was a landmark in the WWII Death March. From Wikipedia: Upon arrival at the San Fernando railhead, prisoners were stuffed into sweltering; brutally hot metal box cars for the one-hour trip to Capas, in 43 °C (110 °F) […]

Death March Marker Zero in Mariveles 15 Dec. 2014

#05 picture shows the Iconic Marker of a Fallen Soldier or Serviceman with WWI helmet which the Allied Soldier wore in the Philippines in the defense of the islands. —————————————— The Researcher and spouse of the book Relentless Hope visited the Philippines and we teamed up to visit historical places on Luzon. We stopped at […]