Marsh Is.#305 Surrender of Bataan - 1992 Imperforate Mint Issue
April 9, 1942 For three grueling months beginning in December 1941, 80,000 U.S. and Filipino troops commanded by Major General Edward P. King Jr. dug in to defend the Bataan peninsula against the Japanese 14th Army under General Masahura Homma. Fighting the Japanese was not their only problem. Isolated from much-needed supplies, starvation and disease were taking their toll. By mid-March 1942, thousands of troops were too weak or sick for combat. On April 3 the Japanese began their final assault. To avoid total disaster, General King surrendered six days later. The brutal Japanese quickly executed 3,000 officers and the atrocities continued with the Bataan Death March — 65 miles of abuse and starvation through forbidding jungles to P.O.W. camps. Those too weak to walk were shot or bayoneted. After the war, General Masahura Homma was convicted of war crimes and executed for his sadistic treatment of Prisoners of War.
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