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.
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.
A behind the scenes look at the process I use to identify POWs to highlight in “Left Behind,” and once chosen, how I find their amazing stories. Listen and subscribe…
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.
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.
I’ve been working toward creating the Left Behind podcast for nearly 20 years. Seems strange, but it’s true. And it’s part of my answer to the question ALL the time:…
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.
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.