by Steve Gibson | Apr 27, 2014 | MBDO Activities, MBDO News, Slider
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...
by Steve Gibson | Apr 23, 2014 | Bataan Days, Slider
Col. McMahon has completed curating the photos for the 2013 Maywood Bataan Day. Please check out the Bataan Day Album under GALLERIES above, or click here.
by Steve Gibson | Apr 15, 2014 | Bataan Days, Co. B, Slider
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...
by Steve Gibson | Feb 26, 2014 | 192nd Postings, Slider
A recently re-discovered article from the US Army’s Armor Magazine, from January/February 1989. The article recounts the preparations and fierce fighting of the 192nd in the Philippines. Click this link to read or download:...
by Steve Gibson | Dec 28, 2013 | Co. D, Slider
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....
by Steve Gibson | Dec 11, 2013 | Co. B, Slider
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...