American POWs of Japan

05/07/2025

Now through June 1st, donating $100 or more means you will receive a FREE League Tote Bag!

This sturdy 12" x 4" x 20" tote will be shipped directly to your home — perfect for everyday use and a powerful way to raise awareness of the need to account as fully as possible for our missing servicemen & civilians. The link to donate is below ↓

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05/07/2025

The National Museum of the Pacific War, located in Fredericksburg, TX, tells the human story of World War II in the Pacific in more than 55,000 sq ft of…

05/07/2025

Trump tried to hijack Veterans Day and rename it “Victory Day.” Veterans groups pushed back hard—and the White House folded.

A draft-dodging coward doesn’t get to redefine a day he never earned.

MORE: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/05/white-house-retreat-trumps-short-lived-proposal-rename-veterans-day.html

05/04/2025

Private James "Stanley" Mitchell died a prisoner of war in the Philippines in 1943. His remains were identified in September of 2024, and his body was returned to the US

04/19/2025

12/14/2024

Another reporter believes everyone on the Philippine in 1942 was on the Bataan Death March. No fact checking, no history, and no common sense to show that this was impossible.

A former POW camp in the Philippines which was the site of a massacre of U.S. troops has fallen into disrepair.

09/25/2023

It took until the 1980s for Congress to recognize the special kind of bravery and grit it took to be a POW.

For the nearly 94,000 American POWs in Germany the end of World War II did not end their suffering.

08/12/2023

YOKOHAMA -- A memorial service held every August at a cemetery interring more than 1,700 foreign soldiers, including those who died as prisoners of th

05/08/2023

Well being in the Pacific was not all bad...

In 1944, the British converted HMS Menestheus into an amenities ship for Allied forces in the Pacific, complete with a brewery.

05/08/2023

The bigger force does not always win and be careful of your assumptions.

Instead of launching a counterattack, Percival surrendered Singapore in what Winston Churchill described as the worst disaster in British military history

05/06/2023

Today is May 6, the anniversary of the Fall of Corregidor and National Nurses Day. Nurse Black's daughter recently went on a reconciliation trip to Japan. Her father was also a POW.

Today’s is Army Veteran Earlyn Black Harding, a nurse who was held as a POW for almost three years after the fall of Bataan and Corregidor.

04/20/2023

The last time resupply was not an option was 1941 and Japan's sweep across Southeast Asia. The British and the US could not and did not resupply its outposts in the Pacific.

Lawmakers are confronting stark realities over a possible Chinese invasion against Taiwan, raising an urgent alarm that the U.S. must act faster to stock up the island on the weapons needed to coun…