Clark County history: Vancouver High graduate received WWII Distinguished Service Cross

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Clark County history: Vancouver High graduate received WWII Distinguished Service Cross

Three months after the invasion of the Philippine Islands and the Battle of Bataan, the Japanese captured nearly 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war. Japanese soldiers marched them for six days down the Bataan peninsula to a railhead, denying them food and water before dispersing them to internment camps. Estimates of the death toll range from 5,500 to 18,650, mostly Filipinos. Read more...