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re: Odd history or little known facts about your hometown.
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:56 am to White Roach
Posted on 5/15/18 at 11:56 am to White Roach
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That's an odd fact. What was the population of Bogalusa, or even all of Washington Parish, in 1940? What are the chances five guys from the area were all captured on the Bataan peninsula AND survived the death march, plus the next 4-1/2 years as slave laborers? Were they brothers or some kind of relatives?
Not brothers, not even with the same units. Four of the five were sent to slave labor camps in China and Japan (all survived); one was considered too ill to be sent off for labor and was still in Camp Cabanatuan when the Army Rangers rescued the remaining POWs in January 1945, dramatized in the movie, The Great Raid.
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Posted on 5/15/18 at 12:20 pm to blueridgeTiger
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Not brothers, not even with the same units
That's crazy. I know it was sort of common back then for relatives or friends to enlist together and request the same unit. Of course that all ended with the five Sullivan brothers all dying on the USS Juneau.
I know a very large number of American and Filipino prisoners were taken when Bataan and Corregidor fell. Maybe 100,000? Not sure how many were Americans. Seems strange to think that even with that many prisoners that five would be from Bogalusa and even stranger that they weren't related in some way. That's a cool bit of trivia!
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