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Which places marked the route from Mariveles to Camp O’Donnell?
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Bataan Death March
Prisoners during the Bataan Death March, 1942.
The Bataan Death March route began in Mariveles, located on the southern tip of the Bataan Peninsula. From there, prisoners were forced to march north along the peninsula's east coast to a rail head in San Fernando.1
At San Fernando, the captives were loaded into cramped, unsanitary boxcars and transported by rail to Capas. Upon arrival in Capas, the prisoners were forced to walk an additional 7 miles (11 km) to reach their final destination, Camp O’Donnell, a former Philippine army training center.1