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POW survival rates

Marines survived the ordeal of Japanese prison camps at twice the rate of army GIs. What were the factors that accounted for this? Read full article.
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Marines survived the ordeal of Japanese prison camps at twice the rate of army GIs. What were the factors that accounted for this?
Not many Marines were taken prisoner. Very few of those were captured in the Philippines. Marine POWs mostly came from three groups: 1) The Wake Island defense battalion; 2) China and 3) pilots captured in the Central Pacific and Solomons.

The Marines captured on Wake Island and in China, although horribly mistreated, did not have to endure anything like the Bataan Death March or the POW camps in the Philippines. The pilots who were captured and actually lived long enough to reach POW camps, were mostly sent to camps in Japan; where survival rates were higher than in the Philippines.
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So now the victims of the Death March are responsible?

How very PC to avoid discussing the sheer barbarism of the Japanese.
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So now the victims of the Death March are responsible?
Where in the heck did anyone say that?

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How very PC to avoid discussing the sheer barbarism of the Japanese.
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"Marines survived the ordeal of Japanese prison camps at twice the rate of army GIs. What were the factors that accounted for this?"

The "sheer barbarism of the Japanese" didn't contribute to the higher survival rate of USMC POWS.
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One of my father's closest friends was a former survivor of the Death March.

According to that fellow, no move was made to prepare units for the possibility of surrender or capture, and a lot of strategy was based on the MacArthur doctrine of invincibility and reinforcement right up to final moments when it became apparent that American forces could not hold. Again, according to him, his won unit was demoralized by forces they had been led to believe were inferior, the failure of promised aid to appear, and the news that MacArthur had left the theater of operations, effectively abandoning the troops in the field.

There was also a training factor, in that many of the Army units were often support units such as artillery and so forth, comprising troops who never expected to fight "on the line", as opposed to the Marines, trained as heavy assault forces from the beginning.

However, none of this excuses the barbarism of the Japanese, who went out of their way to torment, torture and butcher their captives at every opportunity.
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It's not surprising that no marines died during the Bataan Death March since the vast majority of marines were made prisoners of war after the march ended. The march started 10 April, but the majority of marines in the Philippines were stationed on Corregidor Island which did not surrender until 6 May. The article states that the marines on Corregidor took part in the Death March, but even a quick search on the web disproves this. (http://www.nps.gov/archive/wapa/inde...0-00/sec22.htm). Elementary errors such as this does not inspire confidence in the editorial and fact checking process in the office of World War II magazine.
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