It’s getting hotter — and more expensive to stay cool — in the island nation. Will it become the first in Southeast Asia to ...

See a brief timeline of the American experience during World War II in the Philippines below. Early January: The Japanese occupy Manila. U.S. forces retreat south into the Bataan peninsula.

Thousands of U.S. and Filipino troops were killed after being forced into a perilous march through the jungles of Philippines as prisoners of war during World War II. Many of them were New ...

Two American veterans of World War II who fought to free the Philippines in 1945 are headed back to help mark the 80th ...

A Minnesota native and United States airman taken prisoner by Japanese forces in the Philippines during ... surrender of U.S.

By March 1942, Japan controlled all of the Western Pacific except the Philippines. MacArthur's plan was to hold his ground on the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island in the Philippines until ...

So, they gave us a little rice and chickens, and helped us to get enough strength to continue on up the peninsula of Bataan ... guerrillas throughout the Philippines. While the Japanese pounded ...

On Feb. 7, Colter finally made it back to Lakeland, where his remains will be reinterred, with full military honors, on Feb.

The Philippines, and MacArthur's army, were alone. On the Bataan peninsula of Luzon Island, the Philippine scouts, a few U.S. Army National Guard units, and 10 divisions of poorly equipped ...

and engaged in heavy combat along the Bataan Peninsula. Following the Luzon Campaign, Hodges remained in the Philippines to assist with the care of Japanese prisoners at an internment camp.