A momentous occasion took place aboard the USS Bataan docked at the port of Miami during its first Fleet Week. In a ceremony ...

This Congressional Gold Medal honors the more than 250,000 ... Affairs Undersecretary Reynaldo B. Mapagu. The Bataan Memorial Death March pays tribute and honors the special group of heroes ...

New York Air National Guard Chief Master Sgt. Patricia Pullar completed a 26.2-mile Bataan Death March Marathon for the ...

E ight families of Filipino American WWII veterans this month accepted the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously on behalf of their loved one in recognition of their bravery, reported ABS-CBN.

Afterward, prisoners were forced on a 65-mile march, later known as the Bataan Death March, from the peninsula to a prisoner-of-war camp that resulted in thousands of deaths along the way ...

Minnesota Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Kim Rauch, hangs the commemorative dog tags of a soldier from Company A 194th Tank Battalion who died on Bataan during the 82nd Anniversary of the Fall ...

While official figures vary greatly, US sources estimate that 12,000 US and 66,000 Filipino soldiers walked the Death March resulting to 18,000 Filipino deaths but just 650 American deaths. This ...

Balanga, Philippines (CNN) — 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 the end, after the infamous 65-mile Bataan Death March and years in prisoner of war camps, 813 of those World War II soldiers never made it home. Now, eight decades after Bataan fell, only one of ...

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 food ...