Bataan-Corregidor Memorial - FEPOW - Lakefront Park - Kissimmee - Florida, USA.
N 28° 17.428 W 081° 24.184
17R E 460476 N 3129445
Bataan-Corregidor Memorial 'A Tribute To Courage' is dedicated to the Americans and Filipinos who fought in the Philippines during World War II, especially Prisoners of War on the Bataan and Corregidor Death March.
Waymark Code: WMFRP0
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 11/24/2012
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"The Bataan Death March (1942) was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 60,000 Filipino and 15,000 American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. All told, approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 300–650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach Camp O'Donnell. Death tolls vary, especially amongst Filipino POWs, because historians cannot determine how many prisoners blended in with the civilian population and escaped.
The 128 km (80 mi) march was characterized by wide-ranging physical abuse and murder, and resulted in very high fatalities inflicted upon prisoners and civilians alike by the Japanese Army, and was later judged by an Allied military commission to be a Japanese war crime." Text Source: (
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Bataan-Corregidor Memorial
Lakefront Park
Corner of Lakeshore Dr. & Monument Ave.
Kissimmee, FL 34741
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Date of Dedication: 5/20/1995