How many Filipino and American prisoners were captured after the fall of Bataan?

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Bataan Death March Prisoners during the Bataan Death March, 1942.

Following the surrender of Allied forces on the Bataan Peninsula in April 1942, approximately 76,000 prisoners of war were captured by the Japanese military. This total consisted of 66,000 Filipino soldiers and 10,000 American troops.1