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BUMGARNER, John R. (b. 1912)

ProfessionsPhysician
Military ServiceU.S. Army WWII Veteran

Oral Histories

OH 1073

Physician. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese following the fall of the Philippines in World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Hakodate, Hokkaido, 1944-45; liberation.