Survivors of the Bataan Death March

My cousin Walter Engstrom was in the Army Air Force,stationed somewhere in the Phillipines when the Japanese bomber Pearl Harbor in WWII. He was captured and my aunt was told that he was on the death

My cousin Walter Engstrom was in the Army Air Force,stationed somewhere in the Phillipines when the Japanese bomber Pearl Harbor in WWII. He was captured and my aunt was told that he was on the death march. He and other survivors were put in a Japenese troop transport ship and they were to be interred in Japan in POW camps. An American submarine mistook the ship for a Japanese troop transport and sunk it. Most of the POW's perished, a few survived.

I just finished reading an article in Ameican Profile Magizine about the Bataan Death March Runners. I was wondering if any of the survivors still alive might have known my cousin. 

 I cannot give any more information than what I've stated. I was about seven years old when a memorial service was held in Detroit, Mi. for Elmer Engstorm. My aunt and all my relatives that had knowledge about the facts surrounding Walters death have passed on. So I can only tell you what I remeber as a boy. 

Don Borman

  

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