When Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines in 1942, Jonathan Wainwright and his forces remained behind to face the Japanese.

After 83 years, family members of James Swartz were finally able to inter his remains in Summit Cemetery. His remains had rested, unidentified, in a mass grave until 2019.

After the fall of Bataan, the small, rocky and heavily defended island of Corregidor was a last stand for the Allied ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The Bataan Death March is one of the darkest stories of World War Two when Japanese soldiers forced marched more than 70,000 American and Filipino prisoners more than 60 miles.

The Bataan Death March began on April 10, 1942, according to the National Museum of the United States Air Force. "The Japanese assembled about 78,000 prisoners (12,000 U.S. and 66,000 Filipino ...

Some of them marched to their deaths during World War II in the infamous Bataan Death march in April 1942. Others perished later in the prison camps. A few made it home to their families ...

Several White Sands Missile Range employees were recognized for their contributions during the last Bataan Memorial Death March at an awards ceremony April 23 at the Frontier Club. WSMR Garrison ...

He was reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese ... According to prison camp and other records, Swartz died Sept. 23, 1942, and was buried in the local Cabanatuan ...