The Final Transfers of Sailors McManus, Hutchison, and Hall
Sailors Alton Hall, Adolphus Hutchison, and Father Francis McManus each survived a vicious ship bombing and 2.5 years in a Japanese POW camp. But their enemies suddenly had new plans for them – transf...
24 Apr 202343min
Johnny Wheeler and the Last Cavalry Charge in US History
The last US Army Cavalry charge happened during WW2 – on January 16, 1942, to be exact. The 26th Cavalry was on patrol in the northern Bataan Peninsula, when they encountered the advance guard of a la...
17 Apr 202337min
Stranded in Manila: The Frances Long Story
21-year-old Frances Long was just passing through Manila when WW2 broke out – stranding her there. She’d arrived just days previous with her fiancée, US Marine Alan Manning. On Sunday, December 7, the...
10 Apr 202334min
How John Burk’s Past Saved Him from Execution
John Burk languished for 3 months in 1943 in Manila’s medieval-era dungeon. Then the sentence came: Execution. The date was set. The prison guards forced him to dig his own grave. When suddenly… Burk’...
27 Mar 202332min
They Sabotaged the Japanese . . . and Lived to Tell
As the US military hurriedly withdrew from Manila on Christmas 1941, 4 US sailors were ordered to remain behind on a sabotage mission. Their mission accomplished; it was too late to join the American ...
20 Mar 202330min
The Ill-Fated Engineers of Company C
75% of servicemen in Company C, 803rd Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers, died in captivity during WW2. Company C had 166 servicemen on its roster when WW2 began. Only 38 returned home. The rest died...
13 Mar 202340min
Dominador Figuracion: First to Confront the Invading Japanese
More than 50,000 native Filipino servicemen were captured when the US surrendered The Philippines in 1942. Filipino servicemen outnumbered Americans at least 6 to 1 during WW2 in The Philippines. Yet ...
6 Mar 202333min
Louis Sontag and Brooks Miller’s Heartbreaking Escapes
Marines Brooks Miller and Louis Sontag escaped Japanese forces 3 times during WW2. The first was when they helped rescue sailors and civilians trapped on a burning navy yard pier after a devastating J...
27 Feb 202332min
