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 ...

A cinematic tale of survival through warfare, captivity by the Imperial Japanese Army and a torpedoing at sea.

As the end of 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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

An event next month will honor those 76,000 American and Filipino soldiers who endured a 65-mile forced march in the Philippines as prisoners of the Japanese during World War II. The Norwin Air Force ...

It seems fitting that Walter Straka died on July 4th. Straka, a member of the Greatest Generation, was Minnesota's last remaining survivor of the Bataan Death March, a horrific chapter of World War II ...

BRAINERD — History always teaches us something, if we listen. “And a good way to learn, whether it be history or anything else — if the subject lends itself to it — is storytelling,” said John ...