We covered in my 8th grade in my Soc. Studies&#x2F;History class (in California, in the 80s), though maybe that was because the teacher was WW II obsessed.  We watched a lot of films of WW II combat in the Pacific including bits of Corregidor falling to the Japanese as I recall and went over MacArthur&#x27;s &quot;I came out of Bataan and I shall return&quot; speech, and watched a whole lot of films of combat with the teacher describing tracers and types of aircraft and talking about Kamikazes, so he might have just been a bit obsessed.  Some HS history class went over the War in the Pacific too and covered the Philippines, though I can&#x27;t recall if the Bataan Death March was mentioned.