Captain Fred E. Rose, United States Army, was killed as a Prisoner of War during World War II. Rose moved to Coronado […] ...

The American recapture in World War II of Corregidor Island from the Japanese garrison in the Philippines began with a daring, highly risky parachute drop by the 503rd Parachute Regiment on Feb. 16, ...

Rebecca Park will give a presentation about her travels in the Philippines at the next Charleston International Club meeting on Friday, Feb. 20, at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1600 Kanawha ...

Corregidor Island stood as the final obstacle to Japanese control of the Philippines after Pearl Harbor. Defended by exhausted American and Filipino forces, the fortress endured months of bombardment ...

Across sleepy and remote islands in the Pacific, U.S. military engineers are working around the clock to revive strategically important airstrips that American troops first built under fire over 70 ...

At Jutland she was a newfangled seaplane tender named Engadine. Now she was the Corregidor, a dumpy, inter-island steamer, and doom hung above her as she pulled away from the dock at Manila. Aboard ...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (website) announced this week that U.S. Army Pvt. Henry D. Bordner of Butte, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for ...

Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Oct. 20, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Oct. 20, 1944, Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned to ...

World War II will soon transition from living memory to documented history, with VA projections from earlier this year estimating the last veterans may be gone within the next decade. Even the ...

Eighty-three years after his death, U.S. Army Pvt. Harry David Bordner of Butte, who was a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, has been officially accounted for by the Defense POW/MIA ...

Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service, under the headline “POW Witness: He was forced to ...