Hours after that surrender, tens of thousands of Filipino and American troops began the Bataan Death March, a five-day, 65-mile trek to a prison camp to the north, during which they were denied ...
To protect their retreat, two volunteers were sought to set up a machine gun position at the far end of a bridge. They gave ...
They remember the Bataan Death March, on which about 10,000 soldiers died on a trek of more than 80 miles over a week's time. More: 30th Bataan Memorial Death March draws record crowd to White ...
Bernard Calvi's remains were positively identified in September, more than 82 years after he died as a prisoner of war. He's among hundreds of POWs at Cabatatuan whose remains could ...
What followed was one of the worst atrocities in modern wartime history — the Bataan Death March. U.S. Gen. Edward P. King discusses surrender, 1942. Photo by U.S. Army. During the Battle of ...
While the Japanese pounded Corregidor (which would surrender on May 6), they led their prisoners on a forced march out of Bataan. Before the "Death March" was over, those who survived would march ...
There are some things a man never forgets, even if — like Valdemar DeHerrera — he lives to be a 105. Things such as surviving on grasshoppers and monkey meat, working hard and being beaten if you ...
The remains of the namesake of the Harland J. Hennessey Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Boonville, New York have been found, ...
"Biba veterans!” That cheer was on the lips of hundreds gathered at the Governor Joseph Flores Memorial Park at Ypao Beach ...
Topeka? Days after an elderly social service worker admitted concocting a story about surviving the Bataan Death March, the decomposed body of a woman was found in her home. Police had not ...