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Title: Survivor of World War II Bataan Death March Dies at 100
Post by: rangerrebew on December 29, 2017, 09:49:54 am
Survivor of World War II Bataan Death March Dies at 100
By Janie Har
December 28, 2017


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco Bay Area man who survived the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March and symbolized the thousands of unheralded Filipinos who fought alongside American forces during World War II has died. He was 100.

Ramon Regalado died Dec. 16 in El Cerrito, California, said Cecilia I. Gaerlan, executive director of the Bataan Legacy Historical Society, which has fought to honor Regalado and others. She did not have a cause of death.

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