April 9, 2025 Remembering Shifty April 9 marks the annual commemoration of National Former POW Recognition Day. While many people think of this as welcoming our former prisoners home, a number of our military personnel who were captured by the enemy did not survive to be liberated.
April 9, 2024 An Anniversary and an Adjustment: Remembering the former POWs of the 142nd Wing Today, April 9, 2024 is National Former Prisoner of War (POW) Recognition Day, when government officials, our veterans as well as civic and private organizations across the nation recognize our former POWs with ceremonies and events.
April 9, 2021 Three Stalags and Out! Remembering Lt. Harry W. Tait, Jr. on National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day April 9 is the day in 1942 that Major General Edward P. King, Jr. surrendered the exhausted, malnourished and battered American military forces on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. Some 78,000 troops (66,000 Filipinos and 12,000 Americans of the Fil-Am forces), the largest number of U.S.