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April 9th is National Former POW Recognition Day

April 9, 2020

Today is National Former POW Recognition Day. It is observed annually on April 9th and commemorates the surrender of between 60,000 and 80,000 US and Filipino service members to the Imperial Japanese army at the Bataan Peninsula, Philippines in 1942.

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