This article and accompanying videos are part of a series that will delve into the history of the Bataan Memorial Death March ...
On the grounds of an elementary school in a small Philippine town, the fuse was lit on one of the worst war crimes of the 20th century while at the same time setting in motion one of the greatest ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The young man from Gallup rode the hell ships and survived the camps for prisoners of war, fighting malaria and ...
On December 8th, Japan launched its first attack on airfields north of Manila following the Pearl Harbor attack. General Douglas MacArthur, commanding US and Filipino forces, executed a series of ...
In 1988, Congress approved designating April 9 as Former Prisoners of War Day. The day commemorates the April 9, 1942, surrender of more than 12,000 American troops and 66,000 Filipino soldiers on the ...