Capas National Shrine - O'Donnell River

Especially in memoirs of the Bataan Death March and the prisoners’ subsequent imprisonment in Japanese concentration camps, access to water became an obsession. And the reason anyone survived at all at Camp O’Donnell was the presence of this stream on the edge of the camp.

At times, depending on the mood of the guards, prisoners were allowed to fill buckets in the stream.

Lester I. Tenney's My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March has vivid passages about this stretch of muddy water.

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• Text: Matthew Stevenson
• Photos: Matthew Stevenson