The National American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Museum, Education

Wellsburg, WV

Museum with World War II artifacts, documents, photos concentrated on the American Defense of the Philippines in 1941-42 and the POW experience of the men captured by the Imperial Japanese Army.

The only depository of its kind in the world devoted to the Bataan Death March and the imprisonment of over 66,000 men and women by the Japanese during World War II.

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