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

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

On April 9, 1942, the combined American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army. The American and Filipino troops were suffering from a combination of ...

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 ...

and was one of tens of thousands of POWs subjected to the Bataan Death March in the spring of 1942. After the 65-mile trek, Murphy and other soldiers were held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp #1.

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.

1942. “I love rucking, I love fitness, and I love challenges,” said Vann. “The Bataan Death Memorial March requires all participants to walk 26.2 miles in uneven sandy terrain of the New ...

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 ...

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 ...

Swartz, a member of the 24th Pursuit Group, was captured when U.S. forces surrendered in Bataan and died in September 1942 at age 21. His remains were identified in 2024 through dental and ...