Tensions In Ww2
Cheyenne Czarnick
U.S. History p. 1
11/6/2014
By the spring of 1941, intensifying divergence and tensions between the United States and Japan made it apparent the two countries were headed straight for an altercation. Franklin D. Roosevelt had sanctioned Japan by cutting off their U.S. oil supply because he feared that Japan was going to take over Southeast Asia, which therefore would threaten Great Britain's ability to oppose Nazi aggression in Europe. Japan was a relatively isolated group of islands lacking in raw mineral resources such as oil and iron. After almost a decade of war with China, and an increasingly contradictory relationship with the United States, belligerent, hostile Japan had the objective of taking the entire Pacific …show more content…
They didn’t share what little rations they had with their prisoners so the trip was really hard on them. They were treated badly by the Japanese; beaten, starved, and tortured. The Japanese refused to give them food or water so thousands died from pure exhaustion. Others died from sickness and lack of medicine. More still died at the hands of the Japanese Army for simply being prisoners of war. The Japanese tortured them by forcing them to stare at the sun until they fell back after hours of pain, and then they were killed by beatings, gunshots, stabbings, or beheadings. The march quickly became survival of the fittest to the prisoners. They were being killed for no reason at all and overall 7,000 to 10,000 American and Filipino soldiers were lost on the tragic, repulsive, antagonism on the United States known as the Bataan …show more content…
Some died in the boxcars for they were simply too weak from the heat and lack of sustenance to go further. What remaining survivors were then forcibly marched another seven miles to the camp located at Capas, in North Central Luzon, where the real horrors lay waiting for them.
Camp O’Donnell was the final stop on the Bataan Death March and for 20,000 American and Filipino soldiers of war, it was their final resting place as well. When they first arrived, they had to stand out in the sun for hours while they listened to a Japanese Army General yell at them and talk down to them. Then they were taken to shacks formally used as Japanese Army Training Units. It was crowded and the conditions were horrible there, especially in the “hospital”.
There were a lot of men, sick or injured, who were taken to the camp “hospital”. If you could even call it that; it was a building with rows and rows of prisoners laying on the dirty, vomit, blood, and feces-covered floor. It was no place for a healthy person to be, let alone a sick and dying soldier! It was no surprise that men were dying left and right from disease, malnourishment, and
U.S. History p. 1
11/6/2014
By the spring of 1941, intensifying divergence and tensions between the United States and Japan made it apparent the two countries were headed straight for an altercation. Franklin D. Roosevelt had sanctioned Japan by cutting off their U.S. oil supply because he feared that Japan was going to take over Southeast Asia, which therefore would threaten Great Britain's ability to oppose Nazi aggression in Europe. Japan was a relatively isolated group of islands lacking in raw mineral resources such as oil and iron. After almost a decade of war with China, and an increasingly contradictory relationship with the United States, belligerent, hostile Japan had the objective of taking the entire Pacific …show more content…
They didn’t share what little rations they had with their prisoners so the trip was really hard on them. They were treated badly by the Japanese; beaten, starved, and tortured. The Japanese refused to give them food or water so thousands died from pure exhaustion. Others died from sickness and lack of medicine. More still died at the hands of the Japanese Army for simply being prisoners of war. The Japanese tortured them by forcing them to stare at the sun until they fell back after hours of pain, and then they were killed by beatings, gunshots, stabbings, or beheadings. The march quickly became survival of the fittest to the prisoners. They were being killed for no reason at all and overall 7,000 to 10,000 American and Filipino soldiers were lost on the tragic, repulsive, antagonism on the United States known as the Bataan …show more content…
Some died in the boxcars for they were simply too weak from the heat and lack of sustenance to go further. What remaining survivors were then forcibly marched another seven miles to the camp located at Capas, in North Central Luzon, where the real horrors lay waiting for them.
Camp O’Donnell was the final stop on the Bataan Death March and for 20,000 American and Filipino soldiers of war, it was their final resting place as well. When they first arrived, they had to stand out in the sun for hours while they listened to a Japanese Army General yell at them and talk down to them. Then they were taken to shacks formally used as Japanese Army Training Units. It was crowded and the conditions were horrible there, especially in the “hospital”.
There were a lot of men, sick or injured, who were taken to the camp “hospital”. If you could even call it that; it was a building with rows and rows of prisoners laying on the dirty, vomit, blood, and feces-covered floor. It was no place for a healthy person to be, let alone a sick and dying soldier! It was no surprise that men were dying left and right from disease, malnourishment, and