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GEAR, Joe B. (b. 1922)

ProfessionsBusinessman
Military ServiceU.S. Navy WWII Veteran
Notable infosurvivor of the siege of Corregidor

Oral Histories

OH 0055

Businessman, survivor of the siege of Corregidor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Destruction of Cavite Navy Base by Japanese bombers; fall of Corregidor and capture; damage to eyes due to phosphorous bomb; Bellbird Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; transfer to Formosa, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; hospitalized in Tokyo; Shinogawa Prison Camp; liberation.