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Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Frankie Ramirez describes how he held back enemy fighters with his three-inch anti-aircraft gun in the Battle of Corregidor during WWII. Ramirez, 92, fought with a regiment of the Philippine Scouts at Fort Frank, a small rocky island that served as one of four defense forts at the entrance to Manila Bay. When allied forces were finally forced to surrender after the fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942, Ramirez became one of 70,000 prisoners of war transported to Camp O'Donnell, which the Japanese had converted into a prison camp to hold survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March. Because he was a native Filipino, Ramirez was released after three months. He immediately joined a guerilla group and fought the Japanese until the war ended. After WWII, he went on to serve for another 16 years, fighting in the Korean War before finally getting stationed at Fort Hood. Today he lives a quiet life with his wife Christa in Killeen, Texas. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Ken Scar, 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
| Date Taken: | 07.11.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 09.03.2014 12:45 |
| Photo ID: | 1532912 |
| VIRIN: | 140712-A-ZU930-001 |
| Resolution: | 2972x1981 |
| Size: | 1.75 MB |
| Location: | KILLEEN, TX, US |
| Web Views: | 55 |
| Downloads: | 4 |
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