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Maywood Bataan Day Organization 2025

They were barely more than kids, only in their teens and early twenties. Their buddies from Proviso High School called them “Weekend Warriors”. They were members of the 33rd Tank Company, 33rd Infantry Division of the Illinois National Guard based at the Armory in Maywood, Illinois…

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Bataan Day 2017 Gallery Now Available

President McMahon has completed his work on the Bataan Day 2017 photo gallery and it is available for your viewing. Please click here to view the gallery, or click on GALLERIES above and MAYWOOD BATAAN DAY ALBUM. The scroll to find Bataan Day 2017.

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Maywood Bataan Day 2013 – Part 1

Here is some video from last Sunday (September 8, 2013) at the 71st Annual Maywood Bataan Day. It covers from just before the start of the service through the warm welcome from the Philippine Consul General, Leo M. Herrera-Lim. The quality is not very good, but this...

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...

A Doughboy in Maywood

This year, the Maywood Bataan Day Organization marks the 75th Anniversary of the original Maywood Bataan Day on September 10th, beginning at 2pm at Maywood's Veteran Memorial Maywood Park at 1st Avenue and Oak Street in Maywood. As the largest and longest running...

New Addition to 192nd Roster

Seventy-two years after the 192nd Tank Battalion was formed by federalizing National Guard tank groups from 4 different states, we are still making changes to the roster of the 192nd. Today, we added Pvt. Joseph P Henderson to the Co. B roster. The research was done...

Mystery Plaque

We received this mystery bronze item in the mail, with no name attached to it. I haven't had a chance to check out the 5th Avenue bridge in Maywood to see if the plaque referred to in the note that came with it is still there, but I thought I'd share it here and see...

MBDO 2018 Photos Posted

Colonel McMahon has published the photos from Maywood Bataan Day 2018. You can find them in the GALLERY section above, under MAYWOOD BATAAN DAY ALBUM or click here to go right to the gallery.

New Book From Lester Tenney

Pres. McMahon received the following information via email. I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, The Courage to Remember. 208 pages in both hardcover and softcover For your information here is a little background. The Courage to...

New picture of first Bataan Day Discovered!

MBDO Director Steve Gibson recently purchased this photo from auction website eBay. It's a photo not published in probably 35 years and shows a marching unit of sailors from the first Maywood Bataan Day parade on September 12, 1942. This parade is notable not only...

Capas Freedom March 2016

Col. McMahon, President, Maywood Bataan Day Organization (www.mbdo.org) was unable to attend this year's event in person. Col. Ralph F. Liebhaber, USAF (Ret), Veterans of Foreign Wars, Philippine, District 7 & Angeles City Post 2485, was kind enough to share his...

Col. McMahon @ Pearl Harbor

Our own President, Col. Richard McMahon, Jr., has been busy while he's hopping around the Pacific. Here's an article recently published where he talks about his time volunteering at the Pearl Harbor Memorial in Hawai'i....

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The Maywood Bataan Day Organization will remain well-positioned to perpetuate the memory of why Maywood marks Bataan Day on the second Sunday of September. Through the efforts of the MBDO, and the support of those who hold these memories as sacred as the MBDO does, no one will ever forget the sacrifice of these brave soldiers in WWII – or the dedication and support of their families through their long captivity.

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