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WSMR memorial marathon eternalizes Bataan Death March

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. -- Participants of the 22nd Annual Bataan Memorial Death March imprint their footprints on the 26.2-mile desert trail March 27, 2011. Marchers were able to experience, in part, what the soldiers endured during the original Bataan Death March which occurred in the Philippines during World War II. On April 9, 1942, 75,000 Army, Army Air Corps, Navy, Marines and Filipino soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces. Forced to march 60 miles in the sweltering heat through the Philippine jungles, thousands of soldiers died in transit to prisoner-of-war camps. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua Turner/Released)

PHOTO BY: Airman st Class Joshua TurnerReleased
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