Paul Kerchum died just short of his 103 birthday. He lived a long life of service after surviving World War Two’s infamous Bataan Death March.
SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. — There’s a remarkable history behind a veteran who just passed away in Benson.
The Japanese forced 13 thousand American Troops and 63 thousand Filipino soldiers to march 65 miles to a prison camp. Anyone who stopped would be killed.Troops who survived were pressed into slave labor, sometimes moved by ship to other locations. The Air Force recorded Kerchum describing how the Japanese later put him and many others on a ship headed to a labor camp—a ship American forces did not know had American Prisoners of War on board
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