During which war was the infamous "Bataan Death March"?

The infamous Bataan Death March took place during World War II, after the Japanese conquest of the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines.

Beginning on April 9, 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army forced approximately 72,000 to 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war to march from Bataan toward rail transport and prison camps. Prisoners endured extreme heat, thirst, hunger, disease, beatings and killings. Many who collapsed or could not keep pace were shot or otherwise abused.

The march followed the three-month Battle of Bataan, part of Japan’s 1941–1942 campaign to capture the Philippines. Survivors were transported in severely overcrowded rail cars before being forced to continue on foot to Camp O’Donnell. Thousands of Filipino and American prisoners died during the march and in the prison camps that followed.

The atrocities were later prosecuted as war crimes. Japanese commander Masaharu Homma was convicted by a U.S. military commission and executed in 1946. The event remains one of the best-known Japanese war crimes of the Pacific War.