Soldiers and civilians at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, marked the anniversary of World War II's 1942 Bataan Death March with a desert walk involving nearly 9,000 participants. To start ...

The Battle of Bataan ended, April 9, 1942, when U.S. Gen. Edward P. King surrendered to Japanese Gen. Masaharu Homma. At that point, 75,000 Soldiers became prisoners of war: about 12,000 Americans ...

Several branches of the U.S. military were represented among the men captured and forced to march from Bataan, including members of 200 th Coast Artillery of the New Mexico National Guard.

The daring rescue of 500 US "ghost" soldiers from a Japanese POW camp in Cabanatuan. They thought they'd been forgotten until a carefully planned raid freed them from brutality.

On the Bataan peninsula of Luzon Island, the Philippine scouts, a few U.S. Army National Guard units, and 10 divisions of poorly equipped, almost untrained Philippine army soldiers held out for ...

For the most part, the Bataan prisoners came from small-town America. Those who survived the prison camps, the hell ships, and slave labor camps returned to live in small towns as well.

After military forces in the Bataan peninsula surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942, thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured, including Engesser, the agency said.

2, the organization announced Thursday. In 1942, Swartz was a member of the 17th Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group, when the Japanese military invaded the Philippines in December, with intense ...

The Bataan peninsula, which forms the western side of Manila Bay, became the site of the outnumbered American and Filipino forces' retreat after Japanese attack in December 1941. Military ...

Combat cargo Marines have one of the most demanding jobs aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5). This is especially evident during Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX).

As part of the Philippine Experience Program (PEP) Central Luzon leg, Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco led a wrea ...