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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco Bay Area man who survived the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March and symbolized the thousands of unheralded Filipinos who fought alongside American forces during ...

After Japan’s invasion of the Philippines stalled at the Orion-Bagac line, Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma was humiliated by becoming the first Japanese commander stopped in the Pacific War. But the ...

It's been 72 years since the Bataan Death March. Pedro Pineda, 94, thinks he might be ready to start talking about it. "Here is something I cannot forget," he said last week while meeting with fellow ...

Within hours of the bombing at the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked the Philippines. Within a month, the Japanese had captured the capital, Manila, on the island of Luzon.

Harry Edward Steen Sr., one of El Paso's last remaining survivors of the Bataan Death March in World War II, was remembered April 21 for his tenacity and his attitude to keep going, no matter what the ...

Taken prisoner with the fall of Bataan, he, too, survived the Death March, then was held at Camp O'Donnell before being moved to Cabanatuan. In November of 1942, he was sent to Japan, where he worked ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Elias Saavedra, one of the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, died Wednesday. He was 96. Saavedra died of natural causes at his San Rafael, New Mexico, home after battling a ...

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. - After training for eight weeks, I joined more than 6,000 wounded warriors, service members and civilians in the pre-dawn opening ceremony of the 25th Bataan Memorial ...

An annual wreath-laying ceremony remembering those who gave so much at Bataan as World War II kept its commitment to honor those men. But it all unfolded in an entirely new way, as many things do ...

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 motion one of the greatest ...

To both sides in the conflict, the four months between the launch of the great Japanese Pacific offensive and the fall of Bataan must have felt like an eternity. For the Americans and Filipinos, the ...