In this historical video, General Jonathan M. Wainwright, the Hero of Bataan and WWII POW, returns home and meets his family in San Francisco.
March 11: General MacArthur is ordered to leave the Philippines. April 9: U.S. surrenders Luzon. Bataan death march: the Japanese march prisoners of war five to nine days north to Camp O'Donnell.
The Bataan Police Provincial Office remembered the heroic sacrifice of the Special Action Force (SAF) 44 10 years ago in a simple but meaningful program at Camp Cirilo Tolentino here on Saturday.
The weather-beaten flag bears the names of men who endured the infamous Bataan Death March and rode the "hell ships" to Japan, defying the odds by their survival. They lived long enough, at least, to ...