There is a fairly good chance that you have never heard of the tiny Pacific Island of Peleliu. With its size of approximately ...

Back in May 1942, after an incredibly successful campaign in the Pacific Theatre, the Japanese captured the last bastion of ...

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Louis E. Roemer was taken prisoner in the Philippines when the Japanese in May 1942 captured the island fortress of Corregidor, after American forces lost the Bataan Peninsula.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Ira Warren, a U.S. Army private from West Virginia has been officially ...

A Knoxville soldier who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II has been accounted for, the Defense ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Pvt. Condia Lynch Jr., 20, of Knoxville, Tennessee, who ...

A New Mexico National Guard unit that lost half of its soldiers in the Philippines and Alaska Natives who endured the only Japanese occupation of U.S. soil in World War II may soon be honored with a ...

Corregidor is a small island. At just over two square miles, it’s shaped like a thought bubble in the mouth of Manila Bay. It may be a tiny dot in the ocean, but it’s also a well-positioned dot.

May 5 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile on the island of St. Helena. In 1847, the American Medical Association was founded in Philadelphia. In 1862, Mexican ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The fall of Corregidor forces us to ask a tough question: what went wrong? The answer is pretty much everything. “Tell Joe, wherever he is, to give ’em hell for us,” ...

One of World War II’s greatest untold stories began on April 8, 1942 when Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the commander of the U.S. Army in the Philippines, ordered the evacuation of military and ...