I wonder if he made it?
Irving Stobing made it home alive.
My dad did, barely - death march then 4 years in forced labor prison camp.
His story, similar to many others. He never bought a japanese car in his life.
The saddest thing I heard my mother say, was after the communist usurper took power, was that she was glad Dad had died so he didn’t have to see what America had become.
Yeah, he did:
Irving Strobing, Radio Operator on Corregidor, Dies at 77 (1997)
Irving did survive the war...I remember hearing about the account from him in a post war interview. Singapore, Tobruk, and then Corriegedor. What blows those days were. But there was a bright light a few weeks alter with the Battle of the Coral Sea. A tactical victory for our side.