Keywords: Photograph of American Prisoners Using Improvised Litters to Carry Comrades, 05-1942 - NARA - 535564.jpg 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 on this image 535564 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 Other versions <gallery> File Photograph_of_American_Prisoners_Using_Improvised_Litters_to_Carry_Comrades _05-1942_-_NARA_-_535564 tif tif File Photograph_of_American_Prisoners_Using_Improvised_Litters_to_Carry_Comrades _05-1942_-_NARA_-_535564 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Human-powered litters Historical images of the Philippines Bataan Death March History of the Philippines |