By J. L. Kunkle

About the Men
About the Times
About the Geography
About the Pacific War
About PTSD
About the ADBC
(American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor)

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AAA manuevers in New Mexico prior to departure for the Philippines.

3-inch Antiaircraft Artillery Piece (AAA)

Emperor Hirohito (Showa)

Clark Field Destroyed eight hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Advancing Japanese mortar platoon. Japanese basic
military training was a brutal experience.

General Masaharu Homma at his trial for war-crimes.
He was executed by firing squad in 1946.

General Edward P. King hears more bad news
coming from the front lines of Bataan.

General Douglas MacArthur declares Manila an open city.

Japanese soldiers.

Manila destroyed; the Japanese land invasion is coming.

A Japanese soldier poses amid debris of Manila.

Filipina refugees. Some tried to help by throwing food
to the men as they marched by.

Prisoners are rounded up and marched out, 200 at a time.

A deadly river crossing during the march.

A rest stop during the march (note prisoner tied to pole in foreground).

Prisoners saluting at Camp O'Donnell. Many Japanese soldiers carried cameras.

Disease, starvation and lurking death in Camp O'Donnell.

Carlos Montoya at Camp O'Donnel just prior to being sent to zero ward.

A crowded cell block at Bilibid Prison in Manila.
Captured civilians were held at Santo Tomas.

This straw raincoat is similar to the one worn by Carlos while working in the cold climate of northern Japan.

Prisoners pushing coal carts. Each cart holds a half a ton.

Carts are filled at the coal chute on top of the conveyer.
Controlling the chute was coveted as one of the easier jobs.

Barges move the coal next to the pier for loading on to the conveyer.

The conveyer lifts the coal forty feet up to the top of the trestle.

Coal is dumped on the ground when rail cars are not available.