Ceremony recalls WWII massacre in Bataan with military salute, jet flyover at Presidio

A 21-gun salute rang out and planes roared over the Presidio in a ceremony Saturday commemorating the 81^st anniversary of the Bataan Death March.

Organized by the Bay Area-based Bataan Legacy Historical Society, the event was held in remembrance of the infamous World War II massacre in the Philippines. The Bataan Death March was a horrific 63-mile trek Japanese soldiers forced upon 78,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war in the aftermath of the Battle of Bataan.