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BURNS, Jonathan (b. 1915)

Military ServiceU.S. Army WWII Veteran, 200th Coast Artillery, New Mexico National Guard
Notable infoSurvivor of Bataan Death March

Oral Histories

OH 0545

Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O’Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942-44; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1944; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Moji, 1944-45; A-bomb damage at Nagasaki; liberation.