Litter (vehicle)
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The litter, also known as a sedan chair, palanquin or dooly, is a class of wheelless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of people.
A Turkish sedan chair (tahtırevan), 1893
A late-18th-century English sedan chair at Eaton Hall
Improvised sling-type litters on the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in 1942
Lady in a litter being carried by enslaved people province of São Paulo in Brazil, c. 1860
Bataan Death March
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The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of around 72,000 to 78,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the B
Litter (vehicle)
…upon their shoulders or use a yoke to transfer the load from the carrying poles to the shoulders. Definitions Improvised sling-type litters on the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in 1942 A simple litter consists of a sling attached along its length to poles or stretched inside a frame. The poles or frame are…
Photograph of American Prisoners Using Improvised Litters to Carry Comrades, 05 1942 NARA 535564
San Fernando station (Pampanga) April 1942 monument
Fallen soldiers during the Death March
Bataan Death March Memorial featuring Filipino and American soldiers at the Veterans Memorial Park in Las Cruces, New Mexico