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Post by Bob Hudson on Jun 25, 2012 21:20:55 GMT 8
Death Cards came from Roger Mansells collection. I have some massive files from him. Death Cards are just some. I have 59th, 60th and 200th rosters I believe but can't remember for sure. Just too much to go through. I still have photos from my trip to NARA in 2008 that I have yet to get to. I took some 2800 digital photos of files in 2008. I am not a computer guru and have yet to figure out how to use ftp software to transfer the large amount of data that I have to John Eakin. Bear with this old carcass!
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Post by Bob Hudson on Jun 25, 2012 16:50:14 GMT 8
It's a small memorial for such a large loss. There are 138 Death March markers for the 11,900 men who made the March and the 700 or so Americans and 10,000 Filipinos who died. The large Camp O'Donnell site memorializes the 1,534 Americans and 22,000 Filipinos who died there in six weeks. The Cabanatuan site is large and important and memorializes the 2,656 POW's who perished there and because of the actions to free the 511 POW's in the Great Raid.
Michno says 3,840 Americans died on Hellships. A death toll greater than the losses at Cabantuan. I believe losses of all allied POW's totaled over 23,000. The size of the Memorial in Subic does not fit the size of the loss and it is understandable with the fading memory of the events and the dwindling numbers of survivors, not to mention the difficulty in raising the funds to build a significant memorial befitting these men and the inhumane barbarity they endured. If I only had the deep pockets to finance a movie about the entire experience from beginning to end in the Philippines and beyond. The truth being known that no distributor of films would touch it with the Japanese entwined in the film making business.
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Post by Bob Hudson on Jun 25, 2012 14:01:39 GMT 8
Not sure anyone is interested, but I have a collection of Ft. Mills death cards. Some ninety photos all together. Some photos have two deaths cards and some single death cards. Each death was inspected and cause of death was written with names and unit numbers if possible. Death cards were signed by a physician or an orderly in the medical detachment. This collection is surely not all the deaths that occurred over the five months. Many of the cards have gruesome causes of death, overwhelmingly loss of the entire head/ decapitation or partial loss of the head. Almost exclusively from artillery but some from bombs. One was a self inflicted fatal wound to the chest. One a Chinese mess cook. How he died, I'm not sure. Maybe taking a smoke break outside the tunnel. I have attached one example of the 90 some photos. Not sure how to send all the photos to this board except piece meal but that would be too much. Perhaps burn CD and mail them to whoever manages this board. I live in Limay Bataan so if anyone is in the immediate area, I could perhaps deliver the files to you. I am leaving for the U.S. for two weeks on July 1st. Attachments:
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