Bataan
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7.4
- proper noun
- /bəˈtæn/
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Bataan
- The Bataan Peninsula became infamous after the harsh conditions of the Death March faced by the captured troops.
- Bataan death march
- Back to Bataan
Examples
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15,000 perish... on what would become known as the Bataan Death March.
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American boys were being lost by the thousands on Pacific islands with names like Corregidor and Bataan.
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I spent time with your father in Bataan.
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You fought in Bataan, Major?
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You know, if this thing works out, it might give our boys all the way from Bataan to Singapore a big lift.
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MacArthur's at the battle of Bataan facing fully armed Japanese forces.
Fiction book (2000) -
This strategy effectively seals the fate of the Philippines... and the men trapped on Bataan.
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My uncle Pecos Lee Finley died on the Bataan Death March.
Blog text (11) -
US forces, including 10,000 Americans... and 60,000 Filipinos... pull back to the Bataan Peninsula.
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A classic example of agit-prop film, Back to Bataan is in many ways a spiritual sequel to Tay Garnett's Bataan (1943), the story of a doomed outpost of Americans defiantly fighting off the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.
Academic text (2013)
Compounds
A World War II battle where Japanese forces defeated American and Filipino troops on the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bataan comes from a local Philippine language and was the native name for the peninsula and island long before World War II. So, when you hear Bataan you can remember a Filipino place with a deep local history and the famous World War II events that happened there.