Event Details

End: October 24, 2021
Contact: mkotler@jiaponline.org
More Info: https://adbcmemorialsociety.org/

The 11th annual American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society Convention will be held virtually over Saturday October 23 and Sunday October 24, 2021. 

The original organization was founded in 1946 by former POWs of Japan. Today, the ADBC-MS promotes the history of the POWs held by Imperial Japan in the Indo-Pacific. Most members are active researchers and historians of the POWs in the Pacific.

Talks will be: "Yasukuni Shrine and Total War Memories and Counter-Memories of the Asia-Pacific War" Akiko Takenaka, Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, author, Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory and Japan's Unending Postwar; "Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship-George Burlage's POW survival story" by Georgianne Burlage, author; "The Medic-the story of POW Henry Chamberlain" by Rebecca Chamberlain and Claire Swedberg (author); and "The Jersey Brothers" by Sally Mott Freeman, author.

Schedule: https://adbcmemorialsociety.org/resources/Documents/2021%20convention%20schedule.pdf

A minimual membership fee is required to access the talks.