by Steve Gibson | Aug 25, 2015 | Slider
Please mark your calendars and plan on attending the 73rd annual Maywood Bataan Day Memorial Service, September 13, 2015 at 3pm. This year’s service will be held on the second Sunday in September, as it has every year since 1942. That makes this one of the...
by Steve Gibson | Aug 18, 2015 | Bataan Related, Slider
Col. McMahon received the following urgent request for assistance from Linda Anderson: We are Linda and Dave Anderson from El Paso Texas. We are hosting what is called the Mukden Reunion. 2 of these guys were on the Bataan Death March and 2 defended Corregidor til it...
by Steve Gibson | Aug 13, 2015 | Co. D, Slider
During this month’s MBDO Board Meeting, the topic came up of whether the other National Guard companies were still doing anything to memorialize the men of the 192nd. I came upon a posting on the Battle of Bataan Facebook group page that indicated that this...
by Steve Gibson | Aug 5, 2015 | Co. B, Slider
In August of 1945, at the age of 25, Pvt. Lester Tennenberg had been a prisoner of the Japanese for more than 3 years. From 9 miles away, Lester watched the skies light up over Nagasaki, Japan from the explosion of an atomic bomb. 70 years later, he sums up the...
by Steve Gibson | Jul 31, 2015 | Bataan Related, Directors, Slider
Col. McMahon has added a new gallery of photos taken at the 2015 Bataan Death March Observance by VFW Post 2485 memorial at the Capas National Shrine (Camp O’Donnell), featuring Boy Scout troop 485 and others. You can find this and many other photo galleries by...
by Steve Gibson | Jul 29, 2015 | 192nd Postings, Co. B, Slider
MBDO President, Col. Richard McMahon, Jr., recently took on the task of assisting the family of one of the fallen heroes of Co. B of the 192nd Tank Battalion. Sgt. Lawrence J. Jordan fought in the first tank battles on Bataan and later would be taken prisoner by the...
