by Steve Gibson | May 6, 2014 | Bataan Days, Slider
From The Herald, Thursday, September 9, 1943. Author unknown. Bataan Day Sunday is Bataan Day– Yesterday a man complained because his “A” card wouldn’t carry him to the country club…. Sunday is Bataan Day. Yesterday a work man complained...
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 | 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 | Sep 17, 2013 | 192nd Postings, Co. B, Slider
Found this article online while scanning through an online database of Maywood Herald articles. This is a picture of page 3 of the Maywood Herald from July 16, 1942. It show Lt. Emmett Gibson (who is my father), recently returned from Bataan after being medically...
by Steve Gibson | Jun 3, 2013 | 192nd Postings, Co. D, Slider
I was notified tonight by the grandson of J. C. Garrett, Aaron Dupuy, that we have a typo in the MBDO Bataan Day booklet. We have incorrectly identified Pvt. Al. L. Humphrey, Jr as MIA/Presumed Killed In Action. In reality, Pvt. Humphrey was not MIA. He survived the...
