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After 83 years, family members of James Swartz were finally able to inter his remains in Summit Cemetery. His remains had ...
A portion of a ground combat element has deployed from Camp Pendleton to the Philippines to train with the Philippine Marine ...
James J. O’Donovan, a native of Cohoes and a highly decorated soldier, was finally laid to rest 80 years after he died inside the Cabanatuan POW Camp in Bataan, Philippines. O’Donovan ...
1st Marine Regiment at Camp Pendleton is on the island of Mindanao training with Philippine troops ahead of the Balikatan exercise, a Marine spokesman said. The battalion is part of Marine ...
How Swartz ended up buried in the Philippines Swartz was ... were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March, and then held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp No. 1, where more than 2,500 POWs perished ...
James Swartz, who died in a Japanese POW camp ... the Philippines with the few planes that were left, according to the Army Air Corps Museum. He was reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan ...