This document summarizes key events of World War II in the Pacific theater, focusing on the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and the infamous Bataan Death March. It notes that over 60,000 American and Filipino troops surrendered in the Philippines in 1942 and were forced on a brutal 60-mile march, where between 6,000-11,000 died. Survivors were held in brutal POW camps throughout the Pacific, where thousands more perished before the war's end.