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Brigadier General Russell W. Volckmann

When the Japanese invaded the Philippines in December 1941, Volckmann and his men fought back, and when Bataan fell, Volckmann and a handful of others refused to surrender and escaped

Irwin McDowell: Forgotten No More

Irvin McDowell was a true, loyal, and dutiful soldier who was not always placed in positions that utilized his many talents as a military bureaucrat and planner.

Post- Fort Drum, Philippines

Fort Drum, also known as El Fraile Island, was a heavily fortified site situated at the mouth of Manila Bay in the Philippines, due south of Corregidor Island, in the

96th Infantry Division

Organized in the final weeks of World War I, the 96th Division never joined the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) fighting the German Army on the Western Front. It would not