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

In an effort to tell these stores, Patrick Rodgers, his wife Careen, and their best friend Katie Schneider traveled about ...

In the end, they surrendered and became prisoners of war (POW) and were forced into a 65-mile-long march now known as the Bataan Death March ... who also fought in the Philippines, would share ...

George Frank Bishop, of Centralia, died at the Imperial Japanese Cabanatuan POW Camp in the Philippines ... was forced on the infamous 65-mile Bataan Death March before being sent to the ...

An April 2015 obituary for Alcide “Bull” Sylvio Benini states that he arrived in the Philippines in June 1940 and was captured April 7, 1942. He survived the Bataan Death March, Japanese ...

Mapagu. The Bataan Memorial Death March pays tribute and honors the special group of heroes forced to march as POWs under the worst of conditions defending the Philippines in WWII. The Battle of ...

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 ...

More than 1,800 New Mexicans fought the Japanese army in the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines. In the end, after the infamous 65-mile Bataan Death March and years in prisoner of war camps, 813 ...

The Bataan Death March is fading into a past growing more distant with each passing year. But many who attended a Tuesday ceremony in Santa Fe marking the 82nd anniversary of Bataan’s fall want ...

Harry Jerele, 26, of Berkeley, died of pneumonia at a prison camp in the Philippines in 1942. Military scientists used DNA ...

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 ...