I left with a detail of 150 men for Bataan – Went to Bogac and worked there for a few weeks – I returned to O’Donnell on the 20th of May with Malaria fever – on this detail we had to send back twice and exchange 75 men each time because so many were sick and starving.
Basil Jones Gilbert
(1911-1968), banker. Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, served in Bataan, P.O.W. in the Philippines and Japan.
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