Comments on: World War II: Interview with Major Richard M. Gordon -- Bataan Death March Survivor

By: Shirley M

Shirley M — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:37:44 +0000

In Jan 18, 2011 This is a bill that proposes benefits to survivors. In Feb 2011 It's been referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:1:./temp/~bdpyPH:@@@L&summ2=m&|/home/LegislativeData.php|

I found no other info.

By: Shirley M

Shirley M — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:18:59 +0000

I am so thankful to read all this. My late father was a survivor of the Death March of Bataan but he never discussed it to our family. I learned from my uncle yrs ago and also confirmed it recently online. Can anyone tell me where I can get more details or if anyone surviving knew him? His name is Medardo Madla….some called him Maynard or Mario. I don't even know where in the military to ask for information. He is of Philippine descent. Afterwards he served the Navy for many yrs.

By: C.B.C.

C.B.C. — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:50:03 +0000

Your comment is NONSENSE caused by a dire shortage of information regarding the FACTS of the situation.

(I am the son of a Sergeant who was there.)

By: rick tallow

rick tallow — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:05:16 +0000

my grandfather was in bataan in WWII, a captain awarded many citations but forgotten….. his name is Maj. adamin Tallow… some of the citations he deem not publish anymore…a prisoner in both camp o' donnel, cabanatuan and fort santiago.. he was a staff under maj. gen, king… any notes about him?? my father his only son which he had not declared out of wedlock.. but am interested inknowing him.. he was in the battle of atimonan and mauban, the so called battle of the points and later in battle of pockets… anyone who can tell me anything about him???

By: Oscar P. Padernal

Oscar P. Padernal — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:33:50 +0000

Death March in Bataan Philippines, My father is a Victim of Deadly Events as interment for three years in the camp as one of the prisoner survivor.

It was exist in my memory about the secret of my Father why he was survived his sacrifices in prison , here is the story it's funny but it's true,that every morning nobody knows he hide himself to externally rubbing the middle his pee in his part of his body with worse inflame infected and etc.,its works for him for his life until liberated sickly person .

My father name : Balerio . Padernal US Army 6737843, Private Co. D, 57th Inf. PI. ; 498 53 74 U.S.N. ,Native Seaman First Class

By: RAYMOND E. DROZD

RAYMOND E. DROZD — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 17:43:35 +0000

My father, Ray Senior, was a Corpsman in WWII. He passed away in 1975, and only discussed the war after I returned from Vietnam in 1971. His discussion was simple: "Never trust a Jap"…..

In the mid 1950's, as kids, he would take us down to Port Newark (NJ) on weekends to watch the hips unload, tugboats, etc. There was a Japanese freighter docked with a Japanese seaman hanging his laundry to dry on the fantail, next to where a Meatball flag was was fluttering. The Japanese seaman waved to my younger brother and I. My father made the "Clint Eastwood pistol from your hand", pointed at the seaman, and told us to get in the car to go home.

Half of my 12 Uncles served in the Pacific, and they felt that way as well. No one in the family felt bad about Truman and the two Atom Bombs.

Too few Japanese were tried for war crimes. Read into it, and it was all MacArthur's decision.

I'm 63 years old, and I have my grown children read these accounts from the Death March survivors. It's something that MUST be passed down generation to generation. WELL DONE !!

By: ed boylan

ed boylan — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 02:01:38 +0000

BOB: In 1942 acouple of neighborhood friends returned from the pacific< (Marine Corp) survuivors of the japinese in the Philipines. They had been wounded and stabbbed hearing their tales of battle
I enlisted at 17. Spent thirty four months in the service twenty seven of them in the pacific Your brother was one of the heros that we heard of and the memolry of them helped all the others to fulfil their jobs.

By: ROBERT GORDON

ROBERT GORDON — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 13:42:22 +0000

YES HE WROTE AND HAD PUBLISHED '''''HORYO''''WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED AT PARAGON HOUSE 2700 UNIVERSITY AVE ST PAUL MN,55114 IT GIVES A FULL AND COMPLETE STORY OF HIS EXPERIENCE DURING HIS CAPTURE WHICH HE HAD RELAYED TO ME AND MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY

By: ervin n.medina

ervin n.medina — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 07:14:21 +0000

..some of the bataan death march survivor sick of malaria dysentery etc. in the pow camp the experience the beaten,slapped by the japs imperial army.the barbaric treatment to the american and filipino soldier.i met some of the bataan death march survivor like…zacarias bascos,mauro barbosa,timoteo rauto,antonio dioquino,and some of them now enjoy the benefits from american goverment…thank you uncle sam…

By: Ralph DeMattia

Ralph DeMattia — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:10:14 +0000

Mr. Gordon,
If you should chance to read this, I would like to know if your brother ever wrote a book about his experiences in Camp 2-D. I served two tours in VietNam from 1969-1971, so I know a small amount of what he experienced as a combat soldier, but of course I know nothing about his being a POW except what I heard as a child from my dad's war buddies and what I've read in books on The Death March. It galls me to think that we (The US) apologized for the internment camps during the war, but the Japanese have not only never apologized for STARTING the war, they've never even admitted it occured to their own people. Years ago a Japanese student at a college I went to told me that he knew nothing of the years from 1939-1946, as nothing was taught to him in High School, and then survivors of the POWn camps, and of the Camp 731 atrocities have certainly never been compensated.
God Rest your brother's precious soul, and those of all POW's. Yours truly was THE GREATEST GENERATION, and I salute you all!!!