Summarize what happened on May 9th, 1942? Include the "mistake" made by the German Captain Kellmut Rathke.

After the April 9, 1942 U. S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II (1939-45), the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.