This article and accompanying videos are part of a series that will delve into the history of the Bataan Memorial Death March ...

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 ...

Air Force JROTC cadets from Haughton High School began a 14-mile memorial march Wednesday at the John McConathy Academic ...

POLAND — Local veteran Ron Hosler will be the guest speaker for this month’s World War II Heritage Group gathering at A La Cart Catering in Canfield on Dec. 16. Hosler was commissioned an infantry ...

MARIVELES, Bataan — A two-day memorial march honoring the bravery and unyielding spirit of Filipino and American heroes who walked the infamous Bataan Death March started here on Saturday, February 28 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Bataan Death March marks a dark, harrowing chapter during World War II, and the state of New Mexico ...

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 ...

In 1988, Congress approved designating April 9 as Former Prisoners of War Day. The day commemorates the April 9, 1942, surrender of more than 12,000 American troops and 66,000 Filipino soldiers on the ...

A 20-year-old soldier from Louisiana who died as a prisoner of war during World War II has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Monday. U.S. Army Pfc. Joseph C. Murphy was ...

SANTA FE, N.M. – Valdemar DeHerrera, the New Mexico veteran and one of the last known Bataan veterans who survived being a Prisoner of War during World War II, has been laid to rest. DeHerrera passed ...

A New Mexico National Guard unit that lost half of its soldiers in the Philippines and Alaska Natives who endured the only Japanese occupation of U.S. soil in World War II may soon be honored with a ...