The family of a soldier who fought in World War II, survived the Bataan Death March and later died in a Japanese POW camp on Bataan Island in the Philippines finally laid their family member to rest ...

The family of a soldier who fought in World War II, survived the Bataan Death March and later died in a Japanese prisoner of war camp on Bataan Island in the Philippines was finally able to lay their ...

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 ...

In this 1942 photo, American and Filipino prisoners of war captured by the Japanese are shown at the start of the Bataan Death March after the surrender of Bataan in the Philippines during WWII. (AP) ...

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 ...

AS a traveler, I always look forward to developments that make going to places faster and easier. Hence, one of the biggest infrastructure projects I’m hoping will be completed soon is the ...

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Europe edition, Apr. 9, 1949. It is republished unedited in its original form, including offensive terminology now considered offensive but ...

Bataan finally fell. In a military sense the big news meant that 150,000-200,000 Jap fighters were now released, to be used on other fronts. But that was not the fact that struck home to the U.S. Not ...