#41. The Real Story behind Corregidor’s Final Photo
This is the last-known photo of Corregidor's Finance Department, smuggled off the island just before the Fall of The Philippines.
#40. Escape into Enemy Hands
Flown out of Corregidor Island in a daring, last-minute escape in April 1942, Army nurse Rosemary Hogan found herself heading for the safety of Australia. Until...she wasn't.
#39. Pearl Harbor: An Eyewitness Remembers
magine you’re a ten-year-old living in Honolulu, Hawaii, just a few blocks from Waikiki.
Now imagine you wake up on a beautiful December morning to the sounds of planes overhead and explosions not so very far away.
#38. One Warrior’s Bed-Bound Surrender
Seriously wounded on the front lines two days earlier, Lt. Jim Daly was bed-bound and immobile in a full-body cast when Bataan fell.
#36. Defending The Rock: US Marines on Corregidor Island
Could Lt. Col. Curtis Beecher’s Marines defend Corregidor Island from a Japanese Landing?
#35. Legacy of Valor: A Family’s Stand on Corregidor
In the early days of World War II, Vicente and Marcos Mocorro -- father and son – together defended Corregidor Island from Japanese attacks, while enduring the enemy’s debilitating bombing runs on an island under siege.
#34. Relentless Hope: A Story of Love, Faith, and Survival
Chet and Grace Britt were still newlyweds when the US Army evacuated her from The Philippines Islands in spring 1941.
While she joined the home front war efforts, she had no idea the horrendous things Chet experienced once Bataan fell.
#32. An Unbroken Bond
Daily life at O’Donnell was marked by disease, malnutrition, and uncertainty and became yet another of Japan’s WW2 atrocities. But 2 POWs formed an unbreakable group -- which was, perhaps, the only reason they survived.
#31. WW2’s Forgotten Atrocity
On April 12, 1942, Japanese forces dishonored themselves – by massacring more than 350 unarmed, bound Filipino officers and non-coms, who had surrendered the day before.
It became known as the Pantingan River Massacre.
#29. Bound by Blood, Forged by War
Two brothers served together on Bataan and endured the Bataan Death march, on to be separated in horrendous work camp. But they both did the impossible -- they returned home. This is their survivor story.