It’s also the anniversay of the invasion of Norway and Denmark [1940], Lee’s surrender [1865], and the Mongol victory at Liegnitz [1241].
I always post something on this date, and on May 6 to commemorate the dates when Bataan and Corregidor fell. I have a personal motive, as a 20 year old sergeant on Corregidor would later become my father. I grew up knowing several men who were PW’s at the hands of the Japanese, and as there is little mention of them nowdays and most of them are no longer with us I do this one thing to pay respect to them.