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Bataan Death March

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Bataan Death March

August 20, 2026

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The Battle of Bataan and the fall of Corregidor in 1942 form the core of the account, which follows soldiers from New Mexico and El Paso—among them Harry Steen, Lorenzo Frias, Jonathan Burns, Alberto Albandia, Stephen Mellnik, William Massello, and others—through the Japanese invasion of the…

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