#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.
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After the Allied POWs, in the hands of the Japanese, arrived at Capas Railroad Station they were marched to Camp O’Donnell. It is about 6 km distance and seven (7) Death March Markers (DMM) were placed along the way. On the 19th Dec. 2024 friends and I had a look at all 7 markers and took these pictures. In my opinion all 7 DMMs are in good condition. The Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor also have at least 2 more Memorial Markers along this stretch of the Death March
In Camp O’Donnell the POWs died by the thousands because of their conditions and lack of food and medicine. From Wikipedia is this description of the train ride to Capas:
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) heat. At least 100 prisoners were pushed into each of the unventilated boxcars. The trains had no sanitation facilities, and disease continued to take a heavy toll on the prisoners. According to Staff Sergeant Alf Larson:
The train consisted of six or seven World War I-era boxcars. … They packed us in the cars like sardines, so tight you couldn’t sit down. Then they shut the door. If you passed out, you couldn’t fall down. If someone had to go to the toilet, you went right there where you were. It was close to summer and the weather was hot and humid, hotter than Billy Blazes! We were on the train from early morning to late afternoon without getting out. People died in the railroad cars.
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#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.
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#W06 images is an old picture of DMM #107 (at 2014); I’m convinced it has been moved from this location, further down the road, close to the end and practically next the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor INC (DBC) Memorial Marker, a better location!
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#W07 to #W11 pictures are of DMM #107. I’m convinced it has been moved to this location, close to the end of this road and practically next the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor INC (DBC) Memorial Marker, a better location! Original it was located further back the road, closer to the Capas Railroad Station. And I have reported about DMM #107 before in our Corregidor Forum at this URL: https://corregidor.proboards.com/thread/813/death-march-markers
The sponsor for this DMM #107 was USAID.
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#W12 to #W17 images are of the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (DBC) Memorial Marker, it is located almost at the end of this road to the Capas Public Cemetery, on the right side under some old and big trees. DMM #107 is also on the right side like most DMMs, just before it now.
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#W18 to #W20 images are of DMM #108, the sponsor for this DMM is the US Marine Security Group-US Embassy Manila.
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#W21 to #W23 images are of DMM #109, it is located north and east of a bridge over a small stream. The sponsor for this DMM is the US Veterans Affairs Office, US Embassy Manila.
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#W24 to #W27 images are of DMM #110 and it is still located at an open field area. The Sponsor is SGT Harold Malcolm Amos, US Army Medical Corps.
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#W28 to #W32 images are of DMM #W111. It is located in front of a resort. The DMM #111 is sponsored in memory of SGT Raymond Kenney 200th-515th Coastal Artillery-New Mexico. From this DMM we have a view of the Zambales Mountains and the 73-metre (240 ft)-tall obelisk at the Capas National Shrine.
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#W33 to #W42 images are of DMM #112. This DMM is unique; it is the old style DMM and it was restored in Honor of Sergeant Richard E. Francies 228th Signal Operations Company. I speculate that the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor INC have a special interest in this marker spot and placed a solemn marker here. Perhaps it was them who established a nice fence around this Death March Marker Memorial Marker area here. This spot has another very special historical marker; it is an US Military Reservation Boundary Marker. It is unfortunate that, local zoning authorities permitted civilian commercial enterprises to encroach onto this Memorial Marker spot.
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#W43 and #W44 images area view of the 73-metre (240 ft)-tall obelisk at the Capas National Shrine. The entrance to the shrine is about 100 meters from DMM 112. Somewhere I shot this graph of other shrines in the care of the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office.
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