Battaan Death March 2 of 2
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2012
- Interview with Jim Bollich, who was captured in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II and survived the Bataan Death March. He spent the war in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. Part One.
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Extremely touching part of WW2. My next door neighbor who died 2 years ago, John Henry Read, from Edgewood, Texas was a Death March survivor that was taken to Japan on a Japanese Death ship. He was taken to Hirohata, Japan to be a slave in the steel mills there until liberation. I personally saw the scars on his back where molten tallow was poured on him. He never forgave the Japanese and disliked all Orientals because of this.
Truly terrible how inhumane mankind can be. AND as Mr. Bulich said, the atom bomb stopped all the misery before even more bloodshed.
My neighbor that lived across the street from my house was captured, was in the Bataan Death March and was shipped to Japan. They were made to mine coal. The camp was liberated as a result of B-29 bombing missions. The last he saw of the camp commander, he was hanging from the camp flagpole. My neighbor brought home a Samurai sword.
A great American hero. Thank you for your service, Sir.
At the end of the video Mr. Bollich talks about the atom bombs dropped on Japan. Today people don't understand why this was done. When you read about what Japanese army did I don't see any problem with using the nukes. They went looking for it and they got what they were looking for.
They certainly deserved it. The more I study, the more I support the first use of a nuclear bomb. It ended the war.
Yes, the planed American invasion of main land japan was looking at 100,000 dead due to the Japanese fighting to the last man order. We did the right thing by ending it with the bombs.
Listening to these kinds of stories, it's hard to argue with people who say we should have killed every last Japanese soldier. Every. Military. Member.
I agree, but they were civilians, not military. It still saved many lives.
The only thing I can agree on is it ended the war. The US was ready on main land attack, and it could cost even more casualties.
Thank you for your service,
Thank you Mr. Bollich for your courage and stamina. I was introduced to you on a recent Bataan Memorial at White Sands. I found you to be a true hero and was so honored to meet you. You are humble, articulate and have a quiet sense of strength and respect. My Dad was from Los Lunas, NM in the 200th Coast Artillery. He did return to begin a new life. And thanks to the A-bomb, he nor any of my sisters would be alive today. I never got to know him. He passed 3 months before I was born. It is not a popular stance to take but it was a reality of war. I hope to see you again if you are able to make the 2020 Memorial. All our prayers and admiration to you and your family. Oscar Otero
After this story, I never want to hear ANYONE complain about the Japanese internment camps we had here stateside.
One of the few alive of the Great Generation ❤️🙏👍
The Greatest Generation, my friend. The Greatest One.
Wow! Incredible. A great man.
In addition to this most excellent man sharing the unimaginable horror that he had endured I have had the privilege to grow up with family and others who shared their WW2 experience with me, and it really is important that people hear these accounts from a nearly extinct generation. (my grandfather was injured by multiple bomb fragments and cast into the sea when the Bunker Hill was nearly destroyed by kamikaze attacks near Okinawa May 1945, and his older brother, my Uncle Nolan, had fought in Africa, Italy, France, and Germany until the end of the war in Europe just days before the Bunker Hill was attacked in the south pacific. My Papa handed me three chunks of the bomb removed from his forearm, side, and neck, and he told me that while he was in the water he had seenfish eating people, and my Uncle told me that he had never really been a God-fearing guy, but on the day of the landing with all the chaos happening on the beach everywhere I didn't get as much as a grain of sand in my eye. Did that make you believe in God I asked him, and he answered bv telling me how they had came to a place that they had smelled well before they arrived and discovered something none of them thought could actually exist. He said, " I still can't understand how a person can do those kinds of things to another person, so I guess since the devil has to exist then God must too."
I’m a Louisiana girl. Thank you for your service!
Oh yes my dad told me about this and he told me that a neighbor was in that march his name was Jud I did wonder why he acted a certain way when we went on a church retreat sometime ago but my late dad told me about why he acted that way I cried in my room there about that my dad never believed in sugar coating anything esp this horror that those p o w's faced while marching I actually had to pry things out of him about WW 2 we will never face anything like that ever rest in peace you proud heroes
Thankyou, sir. Told with dignity and composure.
I’m surprised this doesn’t have way more views.
Amazing story.
Thankyou for sharing
Thanks for Sharing.
My dad had a first cousin that was captured at Coregador, and went through the death march, and also was a prisoner until the end of the war.
God Bless you sir
The man was made of steel. every filipino and american soldiers who survive and also those who did not make it. Are the best soldiers this world has ever produce..
As a filipino. I salute all of you sir and on behalf of my country THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE😭❤️
Uncle was a survivor featured ina Boston globe story on Veterans Day in the past. Hated the Japanese for decades but eventually let it go by buying a Toyota after years of berating those who bought their cars.Bernie Gillespie what a man,never regained the weight he lost during captivity.The stories were horrific
We can’t imagine when thousands died during the death March
God bless 🙏🙏🙏
I think you might have been with a couple of my dad's close friends a cousin, Cisco E. Salas and Leo Padilla from Albuquerque--in Mukden.
my father was an infantryman of the 5 1st division usaffe deployed in mt. natib during the siege of bataan survived the death march awarded the purple heart and later the legislated congressional medal of honor an uncle was cross number 147 at the tombs of the unknown soldiers at the libingan ng mga bayani, the last time i visited it the concrete crosses were gone all removed to accommodate the fake hero Marcos sr....
Another comment as to why these soldiers were ordered to surrender was that for every fellow who escaped and fought with the guerillas, one P.O.W. would be shot!..... I read the aforementioned in a book about the Bataan Death March........
Atomic bombs are nothing. Thermonuclear warheads are something.
Bataan not battaan
Correct Filipinos separate the a's.
ARE YOU DESCRIBING THE AUSCHWITZ MENU? DRAMATIC HOLLYWOOD DRAMATIZATION? TAIWAN? KOREA? IJA NEVER REACHED KOREA. GILLIGAN'S 3 HOUR TOUR? THEY TOOK YOUR UNITS OUT OF THE FIGHT FOR A REASON (BUNCH OF THEIR OWN ABOUT TO GET EXPOSED IN THOSE UNITS?), GAVE YOU BOYS THE 3 HOUR 5 CENT TOUR? IT IS ILLEGAL FOR US PERSONNEL TO KILL OTHER US PERSONNEL, SUPPOSEDLY. UH HUH.
WERE YOU THERE??? NO. Didn't think so.