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LAS CRUCES — A National Guard unit was to leave today for a training exercise in the Philippines, the first time state Guard troops have been to the Pacific islands since World War II.

Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 200th Infantry will participate in the Balikatan 2008 Training Exercise.

In 1942, about 1,800 members of the New Mexico National Guard's 200th Coast Artillery were among some 70,000 allied troops who surrendered to Japanese forces. They were forced to march 65 miles without food or water to prison camps in what became known as the Bataan Death March.

Those who collapsed along the way were killed. Fewer than half the New Mexico troops survived the march or the following years in prison camps.