Within hours of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor bombs rained down on US and Filipino forces in the Philippines After months of vicious fighting Allied forces surrendered on the island only to ...
Darmstadt, Germany, April 8, 1949: Most likely three former Army nurses, Mrs. Eileen Francis, Mrs. Carmen Sewell, and 1st Lt. Eleanor M. Garen, all survivors of the Bataan Death March and imprisonment ...
Thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops were killed after being forced into a perilous march through the jungles of Philippines as prisoners of war during World War II. Many of them were New ...
What followed was one of the worst atrocities in modern wartime history — the Bataan Death March. U.S. Gen. Edward P. King discusses surrender, 1942. Photo by U.S. Army. During the Battle of ...
Antonio Dattorro ate garlic to survive in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. He returned home, lived his life and eventually put paint to canvas. Dattorro lived from ...