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GUILES, Jake (b. 1920)

Military ServiceU.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran
Notable infoSurvivor of Bataan Death March

Oral Histories

OH 0133

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; coal mining at Histashi, Honshu, 1944; copper mining at Ashio; Niigata, 1945; liberation.