State & Union: Bataan survivor posthumously awarded Congressional Gold Medal

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As a prisoner of war he endured unimaginable conditions in camps in the Philippines and then on the Hell Ship while he was en route first to Japan and eventually to Mukden, Manchuria, China, where he was a POW in a work camp for 3½ years.

“While I was a vendor selling my book about my father at gun shows, men came up to me and told me they read about my father in the Olean Times Herald,” she tells us.

“Back in March 2020 I flew to New Mexico to participate in the Bataan Memorial Death March,” she says.

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