For the most part, the Bataan prisoners came from small-town America ... Honest, loyal, can-do men. For the POWs, these qualities enabled them to survive in the camp. For the most part, the ...

The Filipino and American Prisoners of War (POWs) were now controlled by poorly organized, incompetent and sadistically cruel ...

"They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp #1. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war," per a media release from the Defense ...

That's when 60,000 to 80,000 American and Filipino POWs on the Bataan peninsula were forced to march about 65 miles — and subjected to ghastly war crimes, the National WWII Museum reported.

Teresa Leger Fernández reintroduced a bill that would award Congressional Gold Medals to American veterans who fought in often-doomed early World War II battles, including Bataan, Corregidor ...

Graduate students now also have the opportunity to pursue one of The New School's graduate minors, structured pathways of study that immerse students in disciplines outside of their primary field and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota native and United States airman taken prisoner by Japanese forces in the Philippines during World War II has now been accounted for, more than 80 years after his death.

By the end of the war, a shocking 37% of all POWs in the Pacific theater would be dead. Today, the Bataan peninsula is the site of oil refineries, a shipyard, and many monuments to the suffering ...

The MTKR Terranova sank in Bataan waters on July 25 after the onslaught of Super Typhoon “Carina” and the southwest monsoon.The PCG has been overseeing efforts to remove the oil from the ...