The actual number is very hard to ascertain due to the large number killed on the Bataan March, with their bodies left on the side of the road or in the Pacific.

CNN: 'Dying was easy: It's the living that's hard'

If you survived the Bataan March, the POW camp in the Philippines and the ship to Japan, you were then placed into forced labor with some of Japan's leading industrial giants, and required to work in their mines, on their docks or in their factories.

CNN: 'Dying was easy: It's the living that's hard'

The march became known as the Bataan Death March, not just because of how many died, but because of the way they died.

CNN: 'Dying was easy: It's the living that's hard'

My father was a China Marine, his buddies ended up on the Bataan Death March.

BBC: Witness

General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March during World War II, was executed by a U.S. Army firing squad outside Manila.

CNN: Wednesday,

Douglas MacArthur dispatched to arrest Tojo, sought by the Allied powers so he could be tried for atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the war, including the Bataan Death March.

WSJ: US WWII veteran who captured Japan's Tojo dies

Instead, with a filibuster-proof Senate of 60 Democrats, he began the Bataan death march to national health care a new entitlement at a time when the current entitlement state is buckling and unaffordable.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Obama's Progressive Gamble

When she died apparently by shooting herself in the head, on a rural road in California she had started work on a book on the Bataan Death March and the abuse of American prisoners-of-war by the Japanese.

ECONOMIST: Obituary

As we recall this anniversary of the Bataan Death March, we acknowledge that although the Japanese stole our honor, deprived us the simplest necessities of life, and forced us into slavery, still our values remained intact and we never lost faith in our country or our God.

CNN: 'Dying was easy: It's the living that's hard'