Four WWII Veterans at the Hell Ships Memorial 22nd Jan. 2006 in Subic Bay.
Photo and description credit Steve Kwiecinski:
The four U.S. POWs who attended the January 22, 2006 ceremony are all passed now. In the attached photo are from left to right Richard Francies, Everett Reamer, Harold Malcolm Amos, and Charles Towne. Towne was a corpsman on Corregidor and passed away a week after this tour, led by Duane Heisinger for Valor Tours. Francies was a Death March survivor who suffered from severe dementia later on and passed on October 13, 2011. Amos was a Death March survivor and returned often with Valor Tours. He was liberated at Cabanatuan and never on a hellship to Japan. He passed away on October 8, 2011. Reamer was captured on Corregidor and went on one of the first Hellships to Japan in late ’42. He passed away last Friday. His funeral is today.