American POWs of Japan

12/14/2024

Another reporter believes everyone on the Philippine in 1942 was on the Bataan Death March. No fact checking, no history, and no common sense to show that this was impossible.

A former POW camp in the Philippines which was the site of a massacre of U.S. troops has fallen into disrepair.

09/25/2023

It took until the 1980s for Congress to recognize the special kind of bravery and grit it took to be a POW.

For the nearly 94,000 American POWs in Germany the end of World War II did not end their suffering.

08/12/2023

YOKOHAMA -- A memorial service held every August at a cemetery interring more than 1,700 foreign soldiers, including those who died as prisoners of th

05/08/2023

Well being in the Pacific was not all bad...

In 1944, the British converted HMS Menestheus into an amenities ship for Allied forces in the Pacific, complete with a brewery.

05/08/2023

The bigger force does not always win and be careful of your assumptions.

Instead of launching a counterattack, Percival surrendered Singapore in what Winston Churchill described as the worst disaster in British military history

05/06/2023

Today is May 6, the anniversary of the Fall of Corregidor and National Nurses Day. Nurse Black's daughter recently went on a reconciliation trip to Japan. Her father was also a POW.

Today’s is Army Veteran Earlyn Black Harding, a nurse who was held as a POW for almost three years after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor.

04/20/2023

The last time resupply was not an option was 1941 and Japan's sweep across Southeast Asia. The British and the US could not and did not resupply its outposts in the Pacific.

Lawmakers are confronting stark realities over a possible Chinese invasion against Taiwan, raising an urgent alarm that the U.S. must act faster to stock up the island on the weapons needed to coun…

04/15/2023

This was written by American POWs of Japan for the VA.

Today’s is Army Veteran Edward P. King, who surrendered to Japanese forces during WWII to protect his troops from slaughter.

04/15/2023

Today we remember and honor former Prisoners of War. Chosen to commemorate the day in 1942 when U.S. forces surrendered to Japanese troops in the Bataan Peninsula, Prisoner of War Recognition Day is observed on April 9.

03/27/2023

These two professors present "evidence" that the POWs of Japan were not that badly mistreated and that the POWs mostly made up their stories.

New Webinar: Join us in a panel with Australian National University Professor Robert Cribb and Murdoch University Professor Sandra Wilson as they discuss the nature of Japanese war crimes during WW2 in a global and comparative perspective.

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01/20/2023

British POW.

Cyril Doy celebrates his 103rd birthday next week... a remarkable milestone, even more so given the many times he came close to dying as a young British soldier forced to labour on the notorious Japanese "Railway of Death".

01/20/2023

Dramatic account of the Mar 1, 1942 sinking of the USS Houston.

By David H. Lippman It was nearly over. Since Singapore had fallen to the Japanese on February 14, 1942, the Allied forces defending the Dutch East Indies had battled against a Japanese pincer-like movement, which consisted of aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, aircraft, and well-trained “Sp...

01/18/2023

They received the Congressional Gold Medal.

Today’s is Army Veteran Russell Hamler, who fought in the Pacific theater during WWII and is the last living member of Merrill’s Marauders.

12/16/2022

An examination of the dark history behind the POW/MIA flag. Missed that the flag returned atop the White House on April 9 by the suggestion of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society.

The “forgotten American” mythology of the POW/MIA movement continues to haunt our politics today.

12/13/2022

When most people think about December 7, 1941, they think about Pearl Harbor. They think about the USS Arizona. They think about Battleship Row. But can you name a Medal of Honor recipient from that action? To explore the story of these men, the M...