Thank you VFW Post 2485

Thank you VFW Post 2485

Statement by MBDO President Col. Richard A. McMahon, Jr. on the occasion of the 2014 Bataan Day Observance at Camp O’Donnell in the Philippines: Commander John Gilbert, Sr. Vice Commander Carl Burke, on behalf of the Maywood (IL) Bataan Day Organization and the...
Maywood Bataan Day 1955

Maywood Bataan Day 1955

Ed. Note: Original video below was replaced with a higher quality, higher resolution video. My apologies for the original bad video. A decade home. Certainly the time flew by. Ten years after the end of World War II, the citizens of Maywood, Illinois gathered on a...
Humphrey (Co. D) Remembered

Humphrey (Co. D) Remembered

I was advised of this very nice article about A. L. Humphrey, a Texan who was part of Co. D of the 192nd and survived the Battle of Bataan, the Death March, POW camps, the Hell Ships and slave labor in Japan. Nice photographs as well as personal memories. Pvt. A. L....
Co. B Survivor Among Honored Guests

Co. B Survivor Among Honored Guests

Co. B’s own Lester Tennenburg, also known as Lester Tenney, is part of a group of Bataan veterans who attended a recent screening of documentarian Jan Thompson’s new project “Never The Same”. Recently, Jan had a showing in Los Angeles, which...