82 years ago – April 9, 1942 – some 75,000 American and Filipino servicemen became POWs when Bataan peninsula fell to Japanese forces.

With in days the overwhelming majority of them were forced onto the Bataan Death March.

These are their stories.

I mention the following men in this episode:

• Jim Gallagher – Sportswriter from Philly who died on the first day of the march (Episode 27)