Why did the march begin? The New Mexico State University Army ROTC Department began sponsoring the Bataan Memorial Death March in 1989 to mark when nearly 10,000 people died follo ...

To both sides in the conflict, the four months between the launch of the great Japanese Pacific offensive and the fall of Bataan must have felt like an eternity. For the Americans and Filipinos ...

Flying during Women's History Month, the flag is a particularly poignant choice for the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile ...

“We are not barbarians” was the Japanese reply. A post-war trial would find the Japanese commander in the Battle of Bataan and the man responsible for the troops that carried out the Death ...

Goodbye to Bataan. The siege of Bataan was 53 days old when General MacArthur got his orders to leave last February 22. The orders came from President Roosevelt, who had heeded the plea of ...

His efforts even achieved him some notoriety back home. As biographer Kenneth Ray Young noted, after a victorious battle in February, "newspaper headlines in the United States proclaimed that in ...

On Java there was no Bataan. The Japanese victory was complete ... They had still to fight the battle of India and the battle of Australia. But they had won the battle of the Pacific.

Dozens of people gathered in the Derby High School parking lot at 9 a.m. on March 22 to participate in the city’s first ...