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For the most part, the Bataan prisoners came from small-town America. Those who survived the prison camps, the hell ships, and slave labor camps returned to live in small towns as well.
The Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands had strong participation. "It must remain a vibrant part of our national ...
Further, they agreed that prisoners should be returned to their native countries. The white flag and red cross would serve both hospitals and ambulances as symbols of neutrality. Japan's ...
Honoring the legacy of World War II service members who endured the Bataan Death March is the goal of one U.S. Army Ordnance ...
a Bataan Death March survivor, wrote in his postwar memoir, Our Paradise: A GI’s War Diary. Now the American carrier aircraft roared overhead unimpeded, so close the prisoners could see the ...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has declared April 9 a regular holiday to mark the 83rd Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor), a ...
U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Alvin R. Scarborough and Army Pfc. Joseph R. Travers — are coming for burials with full military honors this week. Scarborough died during World War II; Travers died ...
The event honors the lives of those who were in the Bataan Death March or who were taken as prisoners of war by the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II. Participants can choose between ...
It was near here, in San Fernando, that surviving POWs began what they called the Bataan Death ride, packed so tightly into narrow, 1918-vintage boxcars that there was no room to sit or even to ...
Over 4,000 people packed up their gear and walked or ran this weekend in honor of the heroes of the Bataan Death March. Among those thousands, was a retired ...
Dozens of people gathered in the Derby High School parking lot at 9 a.m. on March 22 to participate in the city’s first ...
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has declared April 9 a regular holiday to mark the 83rd Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor), a ...