#VeteranOfTheDay Army Veteran Willis Lee Benton - VA News

ILLUSTRATIONS: (1) Captured GIs on the "Bataan Death March," April 1942. (2) Japanese guards watch over the American and Filipino POWs marching from the Bataan Peninsula. (3) American and Filipino prisoners struggle to finish the Bataan Death March. (4) Japanese guards shoot, bayonet, and behead stragglers during the Death March. (5) Survivors of the Bataan Death March bury dead comrades after reaching Camp O'Donnell in April 1942. (6) Guards look on as sick and injured Death March survivors are treated at Camp O'Donnell.

SGT Wayne Dunn Amn (Join to see) LTC John Moncure SGT J.D. Corr SPC Lisa Hughes MIDN CAPT (Join to see) SPC Jon O. MSgt Guillermo Ybarra III CPO Linda Aberdeen MSgt Dr. Elizabeth Masaniai, Ed.D. Lynn Maj (Join to see) MAJ Montgomery Granger SPC Bill Bailey CPT Wayne Douet CPL Ricoh Stinson SPC Gary C. COL (Join to see) MAJ (Join to see) SSG (Join to see) PO2 Rich McGinnis

Man. He survives captivity by the Japanese only to die in a car accident. That's some bad luck.

Fascinating story and outstanding pictures.