Japanese putting five-strand barbed wire fence around camp. Also building twenty-foot-high sentry towers every 200 yards. Few PWs have strength to climb fence, much less walk away.
Stephen Michael Mellnik
(November 22, 1907 -- January 1, 1994) U.S. Army officer; captured on Corregidor, subsequently P.O.W. in various camps until his escape with nine others from Davao Penal Colony on April 4, 1943, the only successful P.O.W. escape in the Philippines. After a period with guerrillas, in July 9, 1943, transported to Australia by submarine.
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