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 ...

Last week you read about the Bataan Death March which began on April 9, 1942, and forced transfer of approximately 75,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war (POWs) by the Japanese Imperial Army ...

The legacy of the Bataan Death March continues to be remembered through memorials and annual events, such as the Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, honoring the ...

This story was updated at 7:12 p.m. LAS CRUCES - A group of friends from Wisconsin and Michigan arrived in Las Cruces this week to participate in the Bataan Memorial Death March; but after months of ...

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 ...

When American and Filipino forces surrendered in the Philippines on April 9, 1942, just months into Japan’s invasion of the islands, Technician Fifth Class Julius St. John Knudsen of the 194th Tank ...

Brainerd’s Walter Straka marched in treacherous conditions for about 65 miles over six days in the infamous Bataan Death March that began April 10, 1942. Straka has told the story many times of the ...

Hundreds gathered at Chesapeake Dismal Swamp Canal Trail on Route 17 South near Deep Creek for the Bataan Death March Memorial Walk on April 27. The annual event honors the memory of the 76,000 ...

1/56: People participate in the 25th annual Bataan Memorial March on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, in Brainerd. Kelly Humphrey / Brainerd Dispatch 2/56: People participate in the 25th annual Bataan ...