Zg599. John Duresky is an outstanding researcher and surprises me all the time with his discoveries as he has done here with this project.
This picture is available in my Flickr account in high resolution with this URL, click here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/44567569@N00/53226211550/in/album-72157715101887871/
John wrote all this research work onto this picture but I copy some of it here:
Newspaper clipping courtesy of Patricia Prickett, daughter of Capt William F Prickett. I had the pleasure of meeting Patricia and other relatives of men who served at the annual convention of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (ADBC) in Albuquerque, NM, on May 5, 2023, which was May 6 in the Philippines, 79 years after the fall of Corregidor on May 6, 1942. Thanks to Patricia, a little more of the story of these heroes is now known.
The clipping shows six men seated around a table with an empty chair on Corregidor. Possibly moments before the War Correspondent took this photo he was seated there and talking with the men and taking their personal information. I was able to track down all of them, the most difficult being T E Pulos who’s last name was mistyped as Pules.
By a quirk of fate, the correspondent and the three men on the left all survived the war, the three men on the right all survived years in POW camps in the Philippines but then died in Hell Ships.
Along with the approximately 38% of the POWs our country and their families lost who died in WWII in the Pacific, we also lost 38% of the stories of heroism, pain, and courage which those brave souls never came home to tell.
Of the three men who died, only one has any hope of being found, Lt Col Adams who may or may not be among those buried in a mass grave at Takao, Formosa, which is part of this project at the Defense POW/MiA Accounting Agency , click here https://www.dpaa.mil/Portals/85/WWII%20Hellship%20Losses.pdf