JANESVILLE
The men of a Janesville tank company were among the many thousands of Americans who witnessed the deaths of those we honor this weekend.
The horror stayed with these World War II soldiers, sometimes so strongly that it warped their spirits.
Such was Forrest Knox, one of the Janesville 99, as we now call the men of Company A.
âHe was post-traumatic syndrome before they had a good name for it,â said one of his six children, John Knox.
Forrest could be cruel, and he drank, said John, one of two descendants of the 99 who will speak Sunday at the monument at the Corn Exchange in downtown Janesville.
This historic images shows American prisoners of war on the Bataan Death March in the Philippines in 1942. The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer of 60,000-80,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war by Japanese forces during World War II. A new volume of BYU’s “Saints at War” project features the stories of Latter-day Saint soldiers.
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Capt. Robert G. Davey was lying on a cot in Japanese prisoner of war camp in the Philippines when his ears picked up the faint sound of men singing.
The year was 1942. The malnourished Davey resembled a human skeleton while suffering from various skin diseases and malaria. He had already survived four months of battle on the front lines, the Bataan Death March, other diseases and two previous Japanese POW camps where thousands died of starvation, torture and other brutal means.
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The Bataan troops fought bravely and inflicted heavy losses. But unless the U.S. Navy could instantly resurrect the sunken battleships at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines were doomed.
A 920th Rescue Wing Airman recently accepted a Filipino Veterans of World War II Congressional Gold Medal in posthumous recognition of her late grandfather’s military service.Master Sgt. Janet Muñoz, 301st Squadron Medical Element non-commissioned officer, News, features and commentaries about Air Force Reserve people, equipment and missions