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| Keywords: Photograph of American Prisoners Using Improvised Litters to Carry Comrades - NARA - 535565.tif Scope and content Original caption This picture captured from the Japanese shows American prisoners using improvised litters to carry those of their comrades who from the lack of food or water on the march from Bataan fell along the road Philippines May 1942 General notes According to Colonel Melvin H Rosen U S Army Retired this image is not a photograph taken during the Bataan Death March but rather a photograph of a burial detail at Camp O'Donnell the terminus of the Death March Mr Rosen is a survivor of the Death March Use War and Conflict Number 1145 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image 535565 Local identifier 208-AA-288BB-2 Office for Emergency Management Office of War Information Overseas Operations Branch New York Office News and Features Bureau 12/17/1942 - 09/15/1945 Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 05/1942 Record group Record Group 208 Records of the Office of War Information 1926 - 1951 Record group ARC 535 Photographs of the Allies and Axis compiled 1942 - 1945 Series ARC 535523 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-208-AA-288BB 2 <br /> Select List Identifier WWII 131 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Prisoners of war from the United States in World War II Japanese prisoners of war of World War II Bataan Death March Prisoners of war in Japan in World War II | ||||