How were prisoners transported from San Fernando to Capas?

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

From San Fernando, prisoners were transported to Capas by rail in cramped, unsanitary boxcars. These conveyances, which were intended to hold only 40 people, were jammed with 100 or more men each. Due to the lack of air in the ovenlike conditions of the cars, hundreds of prisoners died while standing.1