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Default Bataan Survivor Dies At Age 86
Bataan Survivor Dies At Age 86


POSTED: 4:54 pm MST February 13, 2008
UPDATED: 6:35 pm MST February 13, 2008




SANTA FE, N.M. -- A survivor of the Bataan Death March in World War II has died.

Francis Hall Van Buskirk died last week in Santa Fe at age 86. A memorial service is set for 1 p.m. Thursday at McGee Memorial Chapel in Santa Fe.

He will be buried with military honors at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.
Various estimates put the number of New Mexico survivors of Bataan at a few dozen.

Some 70,000 American and Filipino troops who surrendered on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines in April 1942 were forced to march 65 miles without food or water to Japanese prison camps.

Those who collapsed along the way were shot or bayoneted.

About 1,800 captives were from New Mexico; fewer than 900 survived the march or years in prison camps.

Bataan Survivor Dies At Age 86 - Albuquerque News Story - KOAT Albuquerque
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