Veterans Coffee House Last Survivor of Bataan Battles from CT
Channel: WPAA-TV and Community Media Center
Date: 2019-01-01

Excerpt fom 7/24/18 presentation by John Chan on Pearl Harbor, Bataan & Corregidor featuring Mr. Dan Crowley, Connecticut's
last survivor of the Bataan Battles. When Bataan surrendered, he escaped to Corregidor, eventually taken prisoner by the Japanese.  

He missed the Death March, was sent to POW camps with the rest of American and Filipino troops. He was then sent to the island of Palawan, and was forced to build the all weather runway for the Japanese.

He escaped the massacre at Palawan, but was then shipped to Japan on a "Hell Ship."  He was finally rescued at the end of the war after we dropped the atomic bomb.