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How did you escape the Bataan Death March?

Grandpa: How did I escape? When we were about to reach the a Camp O’Donnell the concentration camp the grasses were so tall in the Philippines so when at night we are about to sleep and then me escape with my friend and just run straight no stop then finally I’m lucky I was not been shoot they fired us with machine gun, thirty caliber.

Source: <Interview, Grandpa Lorie, 7/10/05>

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