United States History Question of the Day


Anti-Japanese propaganda poster from World War II

(Source:Wikimedia Commons--public domain)


Question 0100214:

Following the surrender of American military forces in 1942, over 16,000 American and Filipino troops died while being marched by Japanese troops to prison camps here, in an incident that was later classified as a war crime:

    (A)   Bataan
    (B)   Guadalcanal
    (C)   Iwo Jima
    (D)   Midway
    (E)   Okinawa


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