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Archive Home > 2011 > August > 16 > Oldest survivor of Bataan Death March dies at 105

Oldest survivor of Bataan Death March dies at 105

By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
August 16, 2011

Albert Brown, the oldest American survivor of the Bataan Death March, in which as many as 11,000 soldiers died at the hands of the Japanese in the Philippines in 1942, and perhaps the oldest American veteran of World War II, died Sunday in Nashville, Ill. He was 105 and lived in Pinckneyville,....

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