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Bataan Death March Marker- Kilometer 100 (Special Marker- Clark Veterans Cemetery)

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Details:

At the entrance gate to the Clark Veterans Cemetery. 

Marker


A white marble obelisk about 6 feet tall on a white concrete base.

 

 

This obelisk, at kilometer marker 100, honors those that suffered the forced march of approximately 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war (POWs)It was sadly but accurately named "The Bataan Death March".

 

These silent white obelisks stand as mute reminders of the two paths taken after the Fall of Bataan by the POWs. There are 138 Death March markers, from Bataan to Tarlac. Each KM is marked by an obelisk: 97 in the province of Bataan, 33 in Pampanga, and 8 in Tarlac, to the gates of the former Camp O’Donnell – now the Capas National Shrine.

 

The Clark Veterans Cemetery Marker is a special marker off the actual march trail , but remembering many of the fallen buried here.

 

Background from The Filipino-American Memorial Endowment Incorporated (FAME): 

 

Approximately 75,000 American and Filipino troops (65,000 Filipino, 10,000 American)  on Bataan surrendered on April 9, 1942. The Japanese forced marched these prisoners 66 miles on foot and by rail to Camp O’Donnell, a makeshift prison camp. Only 54,000 men who started the march made it to Camp O’Donnell, and many were in such a condition that they died just weeks afterward. This journey into prison has ever after been known as the Bataan Death March.

 

The Zero Kilometer (KM) Death March monument stands in Mariveles at the “Pinagsimulan ng Death March” spot where thousands of Filipino and American soldiers started on April 10, 1942 their 160-kilometer grueling march to Capas in Tarlac.

 

Another “0” KM Death March marker is located in Bagac town where another batch of surrendered Filipino and American soldiers began on April 11, 1942 their long walk to Capas. (Bagac-Pilar Route)

Monument Text:

The text on the Monument is in English and reads:

 

KM

100

 

Sponsorship plaque:

 

In memory 

of fellow Elks, 

both American and Filipino 

POWs who passed 

near the Main gate

by Train in April 1942

 

Manila Lodge BPO Elks

Chartered in 1902

Commemorates:

Units:

Philippine Army

Philippine Scouts

United States Army

United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE)

United States Navy

Wars:

WWII

Battles:

Bataan

Pacific Theater

Philippines Campaign (1941–1942)

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