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For the last time, a bugle blew taps in Maywood at the end of the Bataan Day parade Sunday, and about 25 survivors of the Bataan Death March stood still until the last note had sounded. Then they ...
A journey along the Bataan Death March, ... In that first week, Dyess estimated Americans were dying at 20 men a day and Filipinos at 150. Those numbers doubled over the next week.
Though Maywood now barely remembers Bataan, Nicholas Fryziuk cannot forget. ”Sometimes at night I still get up and I think about stuff,” said Fryziuk, now 73. ”Very gruesome stuff… ...
The horrific event followed the Battle of Bataan, a courageous 99-day stand that Filipino soldiers made against the better-trained, rested and supported Japanese army on the Bataan Peninsula.
(Editor’s note: Article is based on a talk delivered during the forum, “Bataan Legacy in Manila, 73rd Anniversary of Bataan Day,” at De La Salle University, April 8.) April 9 for me will… ...
Walt Straka was a lifelong Brainerd resident and Minnesota’s last survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March. He lived to be 101 years old but died last year on Independence Day. ADVERTISEMENT ...
It's Memorial Day weekend -- a time when we remember the men and women who fought to keep our country free. In Port Clinton Friday, there was a ceremony to observe a gruesome piece of history that ...
A powerful story of young men from Brainerd, MN, who served in the Philippines during World War II. "The Boys of Bataan" tells the powerful story of young men from Brainerd, MN, who served in the ...