To protect their retreat, two volunteers were sought to set up a machine gun position at the far end of a bridge. They gave ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lifelong Perry resident, Gerald Layson, recently traveled to San Francisco to recreate a photo of his father, James Alton ...

A former POW camp in the Philippines which was the site of a massacre of U.S. troops has fallen into disrepair.

“He fought with distinction in the defense of the Philippines after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and endured the horrors of the Bataan Death March, two years of captivity, and the depravity of a ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

The Iowans were also survivors. Most had endured the notorious Bataan Death March and then over two years in brutal POW camps in the Philippines. But now, the sight of American airplanes over ...

The Hoosiers were also survivors. Most had endured the notorious Bataan Death March and then over two years in brutal POW camps in the Philippines. But now, the sight of American airplanes over ...

As we mark the 80th anniversary of this grim chapter of American history, may we remember those who gave their lives aboard the Arisan Maru and Shark II. Eighty years ago, on Oct. 24, 1944, Capt.

New Mexico has a proud tradition of service to our country — a legacy that goes back generations, from the Navajo Code Talkers and Bataan Death March survivors, to Korean and Vietnam War ...