Eighty years ago this week, my late friend Bob Brown, a seventeen-year-old U.S. Army Air Corps medic at that time, was walking the Bataan Death March in the Philippines. He ...
The weather was hot, the sun was bright and brassy. So, from the surrender of Bataan, started the nightmare and the horrors of the Death March — the trek from southern Bataan to San Fernando ...
Eileen Francis, Mrs. Carmen Sewell, and 1st Lt. Eleanor M. Garen, all survivors of the Bataan Death March and imprisonment by the Japanese army during WWII. On the left is possibly Mrs.
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops were killed after being forced into a perilous march through the jungles of Philippines as prisoners of war during World War II. Many of them were New ...
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 ...
El Paso, TX (KVIA-TV)-The Bataan Memorial Death March returns to White Sands Missile Range this year. The marathon consists of 26.2 miles of rugged desert terrain. It is held in honor of a group ...
March 11: General MacArthur is ordered to leave the Philippines. April 9: U.S. surrenders Luzon. Bataan death march: the Japanese march prisoners of war five to nine days north to Camp O'Donnell.