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Today, as in its beginnings seventeen years ago, FAME works with like-minded individuals, companies and organizations, serving as a catalyst to effect any repairs, renovation or refurbishment necessary to keep Filipino-American Monuments a fitting memorial to those who fought so bravely side by side.

FAME’s accomplished and on-going projects are:   - Assistance to the U.S. Embassy in its Philippine-American Historical Photos project.  A framed selection of historical photos now hang on the walls of the Embassy offices in Manila and cover the period from the Dewey’s victory, to the current work of the Peace Corps.  

   - Assistance in the partial renovation of the Pacific War Memorial Museum at Topside, Corregidor Island in cooperation with the Corregidor Foundation, Inc. and with donations in kind, time and labor from several Chamber member companies. The project is on-going. (Visit www.skybusiness.com/corregidor)

 -   Contributions are given to Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 2485 in Angeles City, to assist in the restoration and maintenance of the Clark Cemetery that was badly damaged by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, and subsequently abandoned when the U.S. military withdrew from Clark Air Base.  (Visit www.vfw-philippines.com)The current project at hand is the repair and replacement, where necessary, of the Kilometer markers along the route of the Bataan Death March from Kilometer 0 at Mariveles and Kilometer 0 at Bagac to the junction at Balanga, Bataan and onwards through San Fernando, Pampanga to Camp O’Donnell at Capas, Tarlac. This is on-going, with the further objective of getting the cooperation of communities along the route to assist in renovating other major memorials along the route such as the Flaming Sword at Pilar and others installed long ago by now unknown persons or organizations.

Duane, the author of Father Found, passed away on May 1, 2006. He was instrumental in building the Hellships Memorial and was present at its dedication in Subic Bay, Philippines, in January of 2006. The most often heard remarks during the memorial service held on May 11th in Fairfax, Virginia was, "Duane touched so many lives."

Father Found

Father Found reconnects a son with his father, who had volunteered from the California National Guard in pre-World War II days for active duty in the Philippines. War commenced and after time on Bataan and Corregidor, the father became a POW in early 1942. Shiftedthrough numerous POW camps over three years, he was placed on the last prison ship to Japan threeweeks before American forces arrived in the area.



After two different bombing attacks he died, seven months before war's end. The author weaves the story through interviews with men who knew his father, who were in the same camps, and who experienced and endured similar conditions. The story is told primarily from first hand reports, diaries, journals, and scraps of paper, often buried and later recovered or hand carried to liberation. The few twenty-five word POW cards that arrived from the camps are shared. Letters to the family from surviving friends after the war give glimpses of life, friendships made, and stories told.

The author examines the war years within the hopes, concerns and feelings of both the POWs and families at home telling of his own journey over the years as his research and memory provided it.

The Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society

This site tells the story of the Japanese prisoner of war camps on the island of Taiwan (Formosa) during the Second World War and of the men who were interned in them.

The site contains descriptions of the former camps, as well as an honor roll of the prisoners of war. "We want to tell their story, so that what these men suffered will never be forgotten."

Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority

Website of the Philippine government agency that administers the Subic Bay Freeport where the Hellships Memorial will be built.

This site contains names of British prisoners who were lost on the Hellships. Roll of Honor

Japanese-pow Home Page

This web site is dedicated to (1) the MEMORY of those who were Prisoners of War of the Japanese during World War II and who died while they were POWs, and (2) the HONOR of those who were Prisoners of War of the Japanese during World War II and survived those terrible times.  They suffered such unbelievably difficult conditions and inhumane treatment by their Japanese captors it is a wonder that any survived.


The purpose of this web site is to assist the many descendants who want to learn more about their relative that was a POW of the Japanese.  We hope that all of these descendants will document the details and pass this information on to future generations of their families so they may know and understand this horrible tragedy.



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