Death March Markers

[chadhill]

Memorial at Capas.




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[chadhill]

End of the March, at Camp O'Donnell.




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[chadhill]

Camp O'Donnell grounds, as the rice paddies looked in 1988...

Only a few concrete slabs remained in the place of buildings.




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[chadhill]

Cross made and erected by US POWs at the cemetery site in 1942 at O'Donnell. I think it was relocated to the Punch Bowl in the 90s(?)




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[chadhill]

The Camp O'Donnell cross, as it looked in February 1988. I have read it originally carried the additional inscription "Erected by the Japanese Imperial Army", which I presume was included in order for the US POWs to be given permission to make and raise the cross. That inscription was removed after the war.




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[Karl Welteke]

Great pictures, Chad, thanks; how did you get them or how did you get there to take these images?

[Karl Welteke]

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Here is the ‘0’ DMM in Bagac as of 11 Oct 2007. Chad, if the one you are showing here (with the rifle) still exist, I missed it and it must be further in Bagac Town. Another thing for me to look for.
As a reminder I have established two albums about the Death March Markers (DMM) on the Bagac to Pilar Route. They describe how the route looked in 2007, who paid for and sponsored the new concrete DMMs here are the URLs:

s74.photobucket.com/albums/i265/PI-Sailor/Death%20March%20Markers%20Death%20Camps%20and%20Memorials/DMM%20No%20Bagac%2000%20to%2011/

s74.photobucket.com/albums/i265/PI-Sailor/Death%20March%20Markers%20Death%20Camps%20and%20Memorials/DMM%20No%20Bagac%2016%20to%2026/

The above URLs has been a dead links, don’t know why, but they are active again as of 2011-Aug. 08.

[Karl Welteke]

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When I retraced the Death March Route I only found 3 of the old type DMMs left. Here is old type DMM #16 on the Bagac to Pilar route and there is also new concrete #16 near by. The other two that still exist are #15 on the Mariveles Route and of course #112 and these two old type ones have not been replaced by the new concrete ones.

[chadhill]

Hello Karl, what remarkable photos you have taken. I thoroughly enjoyed viewing them on your links. Looks like some things have changed a bit since I was based at Cubi Point/Subic Bay from 1985-88, when I took my photos.

I see that Edna Binkowski nicely restored the Tuol Pocket marker, which had deteriorated over the years and was in terrible shape. Several years ago she asked me for a close up of the wording on the marker, after seeing this picture I had taken of it in 1986.




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[chadhill]

And fortunately I had taken this close up shot, too.




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