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 20-year-old soldier from Louisiana who died as a prisoner of war during World War II has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said Monday. U.S. Army Pfc. Joseph C. Murphy was ...

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 ...

POLAND — Local veteran Ron Hosler will be the guest speaker for this month’s World War II Heritage Group gathering at A La Cart Catering in Canfield on Dec. 16. Hosler was commissioned an infantry ...

More than eight decades after he went missing during one of World War II's most brutal chapter's, U.S. Army Corporal James M. Walker is finally coming home.

Dudik, Ph.D., is president of the World War II Experience, and lives in San Marcos. Nelson is a volunteer at the Escondido History Center, and lives in Escondido. The black and white flag that honors ...

In 1988, Congress approved designating April 9 as Former Prisoners of War Day. The day commemorates the April 9, 1942, surrender of more than 12,000 American troops and 66,000 Filipino soldiers on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A New Mexico National Guard unit that lost half of its soldiers in the Philippines and Alaska Natives who endured the only Japanese occupation of U.S. soil in World War II may soon be honored with a ...