SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico National Guard commemorated the 81st anniversary of the fall of Bataan Saturday in Santa Fe. The Battle of Bataan, which was fought in the Philippines, was the ...

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 ...

Those who survived one of the most brutal battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and those did not, were saluted Saturday at a ceremony making the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Bataan in ...

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 ...

As the Battle of Bataan in the Philippines neared its end, soldiers were not giving up. They had plenty of ammunition to fight one enemy but ultimately not enough to fight the other – malaria. Frank ...

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 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. It was a New Mexico spring day when Mrs. Howard Meyer of Albuquerque addressed a group of about 80 women from ...

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 ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1942, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “WASHINGTON (UP) — Thirty-six thousand American and Filipino troops, exhausted by short rations, disease and lack of relief, were overwhelmed on ...

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 ...