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CPL Don Carlos Adair

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CPL Don Carlos Adair

Birth
Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA
Death
30 Aug 1973 (aged 57)
Bloomfield, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA
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Bloomfield, San Juan County, New Mexico, USA Add to Map
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Donald C. Adair was one of the survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March during World War II in which the Japanese forced a group of American captives to march hundreds of miles under tortuous conditions in the Philippines in 1941. They were imprisoned in concentration camps encircled by 10-foot high fences topped with barbed wire.

He survived three years in the camp, but how he did so was miraculous. He told of the war prisoners becoming so hungry they ate grasshoppers and other insects which flew into the camp and how they used to dig deep with spoons for angle worms and take turns boiling and eating them.

Donald C. Adair came home from World War II, but life was never the same for him again. As one Bloomfield friend said, "Now, at last, he's at peace."
Donald C. Adair was one of the survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March during World War II in which the Japanese forced a group of American captives to march hundreds of miles under tortuous conditions in the Philippines in 1941. They were imprisoned in concentration camps encircled by 10-foot high fences topped with barbed wire.

He survived three years in the camp, but how he did so was miraculous. He told of the war prisoners becoming so hungry they ate grasshoppers and other insects which flew into the camp and how they used to dig deep with spoons for angle worms and take turns boiling and eating them.

Donald C. Adair came home from World War II, but life was never the same for him again. As one Bloomfield friend said, "Now, at last, he's at peace."

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