I am selling 7 of the same photos. You will receive the one pictured or one as good or better.
In 1940 Bollich joined the Army Air Corps. After participating in the famous Louisiana maneuvers at Fort Polk in 1941, he went to the Philippine Islands three weeks before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, the US and Filipino forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula. There, they held out for four months until the food and ammunition supplies ran out, necessitating the surrender of 70,000 American and Filipino troops.
The surrender was immediately followed by a 65 mile forced march with minimal amounts of rice and water, exhaustion, starvation, and atrocities and cruelty of the Japanese guards, resulted in approximately 12,000 deaths. History records this as the Bataan Death March. From there, Bollich was sent to a prison camp in Manchuria where he remained as a prisoner of the Japanese for 3 ½ years, until liberated by Russian soldiers in September 1945.
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