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To: rlmorel

I know someone who survived the Bataan death march and spent the rest of the war in a Japanese prison camp. He doesn't think much of Douglas MacArthur.


20 posted on 12/06/2006 5:08:26 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

My Grandfather refers to him as "Dugout Doug". He ended up on Corrigedor after Cavite was pounded, was converted from Navy to a Marine (received Bronze Star as one too). Corrigedor held out until after the march (about 4 months IIRC) did a year as a slave building airstips and such on the mainland Phillipines and then was sent on a death ship to Japan and spent the rest of the war as a slave in a mine.

Still alive and kicking, though having some physical troubles crop up recently (if they come at 88 after you were beaten and starved down to 84 pounds once in your life, that's probably doing pretty damn good...)


39 posted on 12/06/2006 8:26:01 PM PST by Axenolith (Got Au? Ag?)
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