SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico National Guard commemorated the 81st anniversary of the fall of Bataan Saturday in Santa Fe. The Battle of Bataan, which was fought in the Philippines, was the ...
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 ...
Those who survived one of the most brutal battles in the Pacific Theater of World War II, and those did not, were saluted Saturday at a ceremony making the 81st anniversary of the Battle of Bataan in ...
QUESTA — There are some things a man never forgets, even if — like Valdemar DeHerrera — he lives to be a 105. Things such as surviving on grasshoppers and monkey meat, working hard and being beaten if ...
TAOS — Costilla native Valdemar DeHerrera, one of the last surviving New Mexico veterans who fought in the Battle of Bataan during World War II, has seen Northern New Mexico ebb and flow over the ...
Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. “The only time my dad would ever talk to me or anybody else other than his [Army] friends about his experiences ...
U.S. Army Technician Fifth Grade Clifford H. Strickland was one of many who fought in the Battle of Bataan during World War II. Strickland and his fellow soldiers fought for 140 bitter days, expending ...
Chadron State College students in the Survey of American Military History course will host a series of public events on March 26 related to the Bataan Memorial Death March. The events will include ...
Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent Ethan Pempek honored the memory of his grandfather while joining over 5,000 participants for the 35th Annual Bataan Memorial Death ...