Olympic distance runner, World War II hero and celebrated USC Alumnus Louis Zamperini spoke to a maximum capacity audience recently at USC about the power of resilience. Louis Zemperini placed 8th in the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a distance runner. Later, during WWII, he was stranded for 47 days after his aircraft crashed into the...
read moreReceived the sad news today that we have lost another member of the 192nd Tank Battalion. Silas LeGrow, Co. C, 192nd Tank Battalion, died on January 15, 2013. He was 90 years old. We join his family and friends in honoring his service and mourning the loss. To read more about LeGrow’s service record, please go here:...
read morePvt Thomas Peter Motosko, the last survivor of HQ Co., 192nd Tank Battalion, passed away on February 20, 2013 at the age of 93. We honor his service and mourn his loss. Read more about his service record here: http://www.proviso.k12.il.us/bataan%20web/Motosko.htm And read his obituary here:...
read moreJust received the sad news that we have lost another of the few remaining survivors of Co. B of the 192nd Tank Battalion. Pvt. Joseph Donald Lajzer died on Saturday, March 16, 2013. Mr. Lajzer was born in Clinton Ohio, and volunteered to go with the 192nd Tank Battalion when it was shipped out to the Philippines in 1941. Capture...
read moreNever The Same – The Prisoner of War Experience is the new film from Professor Jan Thompson, the daughter of a POW of the Japanese and producer of the documentary The Tragedy of Bataan. Professor Thompson has extended a special invitation to all friends of the Maywood Bataan Day Organization to attend a special WORLD PREMIERE...
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