Bataan Corregidor Survivors Association and Their Families

08/25/2026

From the family of Cmdr. Larry Cambronero
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08/24/2026

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08/24/2026

Annual Summer Picnic , 8.23.2926, BCSATF Family at the Hamlin Park, Shoreline, WA
Congratulations all graduates Class of 2026!
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08/23/2026

They gutted salmon by the thousands and built a Filipino America nobody talks about. Starting in the early 1900s, Filipino laborers known as Alaskeros left Seattle every summer for brutal seasonal work in Alaska's salmon canneries, doing some of the hardest and most dangerous jobs in the industry for the lowest pay on the line. By 1933 they had organized their own union in Seattle, Local 7, to fight back against the exploitation. What does it take to organize a union when you barely speak the language of the country exploiting you? Follow for more stories like this.

08/23/2026

Thank you all BCSATF descendants and members! Congratulations all families and graduates! 🎓 🎓🧑🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓🎓🧑🏻‍🎓👩🏻‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓🧑🏽‍🎓👩🏼‍🎓👩🏽‍🎓

08/23/2026

Congratulations to our graduates👩🏻‍🎓🧑🏻‍🎓🎓🎓🏆🏆Class of 2026 Cheers!!! And on to the next chapter🥰🥰🥰🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😁😁😁

08/18/2026

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Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright was in a Japanese POW camp in Northern China where he and other high-value Allied officers were held. As head of U.S. Forces in the Philippines, he surrendered Corregidor on May 6, 1942, and the rest of the Philippines within the following days.

On August 16, 1945, a six-man Office of Strategic Services (OSS) team parachuted into (Hoten) Mukden (today’s Shenyang), POW camp in northern China, to liberate the POWs and locate the senior officers held by the Japanese. On August 19, several dozen British, Dutch, and American senior officers, including Lieutenant Generals Jonathan Wainwright and A.E. Percival, were at the Hsian POW camp, 150 miles north of Mukden. This was the first they heard that the war had ended.

However, the prisoners still had to wait for the arrival of the Russian Red Army on August 24 to move out. The Japanese, noted Wainwright, left the prisoners the remaining Red Cross packages, and they "began having fine, well-cooked meals, the first sufficient food we had since the outbreak of the war. We smoked American ci******es like chimneys."

The years of captivity took its toll on the general. He had endured prison camps in the Philippines, Formosa, and China. The man who had been nicknamed “Skinny” was now emaciated. His hair had turned white, and his skin was cracked and fragile. He was also depressed, believing he would be blamed for losing the Philippines to the Japanese.

When Wainwright arrived in Yokohama, Japan, to attend the formal surrender ceremony, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, his former commander, was stunned at his appearance. Wainwright was given a hero’s welcome upon returning to America, promoted to full general and awarded the Medal of Honor.

We are forever grateful to General Wainwright for his leadership, service, and sacrifice.

PHOTO: Wainwright (right) and MacArthur greet, August 1945.

08/17/2026

At the Dr. Jose Rizal Park 8.16.2026

08/17/2026

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08/12/2026

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