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Towery, who won '55 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting, dies

Edit Austin American Statesman 06 May 2016
He was captured by Japanese troops overrunning the island fortress Corregidor in 1942 and spent the next 3½ years as a prisoner of war. ....

Request for Offers to Purchase – Charles Wood Fire Station (FMERA - Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority)

Edit Public Technologies 06 May 2016
The Property is bounded by Corregidor Drive, Guam Lane, Radiac Way and Wampum Brook ... FMERA intends to reserve an easement along the 1.7 acre subparcel's Corregidor Road frontage for the future installation, at FMERA's expense, of wayfinding/placebranding signage and/or an architectural gateway into this section of the former Fort....

Sturgis award presented to Davey, Thompson (Southern Illinois University System)

Edit Public Technologies 06 May 2016
She heads the nonprofit veterans' group, American Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor Memorial Society, and she accompanied former POWs to Japan in October to witness and film the 'historic apology by Mitsubishi Materials for their use of POWs as slave labor,' and met with Caroline Kennedy, the U.S ... Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor Memorial Society....

Music students to present concerts April 18 and 19 (Shepherd University)

Edit Public Technologies 02 May 2016
(Source. Shepherd University). ISSUED. 15 April 2016. MEDIA CONTACT. Valerie Owens ... The Monday concert begins at 3.15 p.m ... A concert featuring the best of the department's small ensembles will take place on Tuesday, April 19, at 8 p.m ... H ... 46, No ... A guitar trio featuring David Browne, Emily Del Vecchio, and Andrew Oswinkle, will perform 'Introduction et Danse du Corregidor' by Manuel de Falla and 'Rondo für Drei Gitarren' by Paul Hindemith....

R.C. Slocum To Speak At Campus Muster Thursday (Texas A&M; University)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Apr 2016
To honor the Aggies who Mustered on the island of Corregidor in 1942, these Aggies returned to Muster at the mouth of the Malinta Tunnel in 1946. The most famous Muster was held in 1946 after World War II when Aggies who were present among the American armed forces on Corregidor once again held Muster on the island. A memorial honoring those Aggies who served on Corregidor is now on the island....

U.S. Veterans Ask President To Halt Hiroshima Visit Planning, Demand a Memorial for POWs in Japan

Edit PR Newswire 15 Apr 2016
MAKANDA, Ill., April 15, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society/ -- Survivors of wartime Japan's death camps and slave labor call on President Barack Obama to halt planning a visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial until he ... ....

PHL Consulate General in Chicago Opens Overseas Voting (Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Apr 2016
(Source. Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines) ... The voting stations opened at 8.00 AM with several Filipino-Americans waiting to cast their vote ... April 09, the start of the overseas voting period, coincided with the celebration of Araw ng Kagitingan, honoring Filipino and American soldiers for their sacrifice and valiant defense of Bataan and Corregidor during the war ... END....

University of North Carolina Midshipmen and Staff March in 27th Annual Bataan Memorial Death March (The United States Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Apr 2016
(Source. The United States Navy) ... The Bataan Memorial Death March, a full 26.2-mile marathon through the rugged terrain and sandy trails at the base of the Organ Mountains at White Sands, honors a special group of World War II heroes - the soldiers responsible for defending the islands of Luzon, Corregidor and the harbor defense forts of the Philippines under nearly impossible conditions ... Rear Adm. Stephen C ... Original Document ... (noodl....

Henry Mucci’s rescue of POWs from Cabanatuan Prison Camp

Edit World History Online 29 Mar 2016
On the face of it, it looked to be a rescue mission with little chance of success. Reports had filtered through of the most terrible atrocities committed by the Japanese on American prisoners-of-war. Cabanatuan held the surviving prisoners who surrendered at Corregidor as well as survivors of the Bataan death march – a forced march of 95 kilometers during which approximately 20 000 men had died ... Lt ... “This guy was a true leader,” wrote P....

Tacoma family keeps up search for downed Korean War pilot

Edit Stars and Stripes 26 Mar 2016
TACOMA, Wash. — As a boy, Albert Paffenroth Jr. walked to the edge of a fence around the runway at Johnson Air Force Base in Japan to watch his dad and other pilots lift into the sky in their B-26 bombers. Almost 70 years later, Paffenroth is trying to bring his father home from the pilot's last flight. Capt. Albert Paffenroth Sr ... Paffenroth Jr ... It shows a list of famous battles in the Pacific, including Corregidor in the Philippines ... Capt ... ....

'This'll never end' | Tacoma family keeps up search for downed Korean War pilot

Edit Stars and Stripes 26 Mar 2016
TACOMA, Wash. (Tribune News Service) — As a boy, Albert Paffenroth Jr. walked to the edge of a fence around the runway at Johnson Air Force Base in Japan to watch his dad and other pilots lift into the sky in their B-26 bombers. Almost 70 years later, Paffenroth is trying to bring his father home from the pilot's last flight. Capt ... Paffenroth Jr ... It shows a list of famous battles in the Pacific, including Corregidor in the Philippines ... ———....

Jean Aldrich, founding first lady of UCI, dies at 96 (University of California, Irvine)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Mar 2016
(Source. University of California, Irvine). Irvine, Calif., March 23, 2016 - Jean Hamilton Aldrich, wife of University of California, Irvine founding Chancellor Daniel G. Aldrich Jr., died Wednesday, March 23, at age 96 in Irvine, the city she watched grow into a diverse technology and business hub centered around a top-level research university that was once just her husband's vision ... 29, 1919, in Corregidor, Philippines ... Media access....

Honoring the Soldiers of the Bataan Memorial Death March (The United States Army)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Mar 2016
(Source. The United States Army). WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M ... The Bataan Memorial Death March honors a special group of World War II heroes responsible for the defense of the islands of Luzon, Corregidor and the harbor defense forts of the Philippines. On April 9, 1942, tens of thousands of American and Filipino soldiers surrendered to Japanese forces. The Americans were Army, Army Air Corps, Navy and Marines ... Gen. Timothy Coffin....
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