Oldest survivor of Bataan Death March passes on

[seamusTX]

Albert Brown, the oldest American survivor of the Bataan Death March, died Sunday in Nashville, Illinois. He was 105 years old.

He may have been the oldest living survivor of WW II.

The Japanese captured Capt. Brown, along with thousands of American and Filipino freedom fighters, on the Philippine island of Bataan in 1942. The captives were forced on a horrific march to a prisoner camp and then subjected to beatings and starvation until the end of the war.

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Nashville, Illinois, is closer to St. Louis, Missouri, than anywhere else you ever heard of. Brown had gone there to live with his daughter in 1998.

R.I.P.

- Jim

[Oldgringo]

Albert Brown, the oldest American survivor of the Bataan Death March, died Sunday in Nashville, Illinois. He was 105 years old.

He may have been the oldest living survivor of WW II.

The Japanese captured Capt. Brown, along with thousands of American and Filipino freedom fighters, on the Philippine island of Bataan in 1942. The captives were forced on a horrific march to a prisoner camp and then subjected to beatings and starvation until the end of the war.

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Nashville, Illinois, is closer to St. Louis, Missouri, than anywhere else you ever heard of. Brown had gone there to live with his daughter in 1998.

R.I.P.

- Jim

"horrific" is probably an understatement. The Japs of those days were not very nice...to anybody in their way.

[The Annoyed Man]

Minor correction.....

Bataan was a peninsula. Corregidor is the island which was located off of the peninsula. Corregidor fell shortly after the defenders on the peninsula surrendered. Both the Corregidor prisoners and the Bataan prisoners were subjected to the death march and the terrors of Cabanatuan and the other POW camps.