[Badboo]

Of the 12,000 Americans, 1,800 were from New Mexico from the 200th and 515th Coast Artillery. But for as small as a state in population at the time, that had a huge impact on New Mexico. My dad was in the 200th and did the march and 4 years in a Prison Camp.

His story here

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/francis-hall-van-buskirk-—after-bataan-survivor-embraced/article_15892118-9625-5989-9c74-701c1dc99809.html

More on the march here

http://www.bataanmuseum.com/bataanhistory/

[wjcsux]

Thank you very much for sharing your fathers wonderful life story. I met a Bataan survivor named Ward Redshaw who was from Albuquerque. He was a slave laborer in a Japanese coal mine during his captivity.