Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

This article and accompanying videos are part of a series that will delve into the history of the Bataan Memorial Death March, which will take place at White Sands Missile Range on March 21, 2026. The ...

A lot of fans of Joe Bataan, the singer and musician who first got popular in the 1960s and is nicknamed “The King of Latin Soul,” have at some point been surprised when they discovered he is not ...

Joe Bataan grew up with a sense of pride in the heroism shown by soldiers in a brutal chapter of World War II history long since forgotten by so many of us. Seventy-four years ago his father named him ...

Retired Army Col. Ben Skardon survived the Bataan Death March, and although he is now 100 years old, he still joins in the Memorial march each year. WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, New Mexico -- Retired ...

Colorado Springs resident Whitney Galbraith is the son of U.S. Army Col. Nicoll F. Galbraith, who was responsible for the evacuation of Manila in 1942. Whitney discovered more than 1,000 pages of his ...

Paul Ruiz didn’t always have an easy time growing up as a Filipino American in the Bay Area. “I can’t tell you how many people have told me, ‘Go back to where you came from,'” says the 58-year-old ...

(Tribune News Service) — It’s time for another try at the gold. Several members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation plan to renew a push to confer a collective Congressional Gold Medal on ...

The Smithsonian presents “Joe Bataan: The Afro-Filipino King of Latin Soul,” Friday, Oct. 19, at the Baird Auditorium in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. A panel discussion will ...

Dudik, Ph.D., is president of the World War II Experience, and lives in San Marcos. Nelson is a volunteer at the Escondido History Center, and lives in Escondido. The black and white flag that honors ...

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 ...

Even after he retired from the Army to spend many long, good years reading books, playing bridge and leading a quiet life with his family in Colorado Springs, Col. Nicoll “Nick” Galbraith maintained ...