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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn’t expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II and the infamous, often-deadly march that got him there. But the former dentist made it to 105, embodying the power of a positive spirit in the face of inordinate odds.

"Doc" Brown was nearly 40 in 1942 when he endured the Bataan Death March, a harrowing 65-mile trek in which 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to walk from Bataan province near Manila to a Japanese POW camp. As many as 11,000 died along the way. Many were denied food, water and medical care, and those who stumbled or fell during the scorching journey through Philippine jungles were stabbed, shot or beheaded.

But Brown survived and secretly documented it all, using a nub of a pencil to scrawl details into a tiny tablet he concealed in the lining of his canvas bag. He often wondered why captives so much younger and stronger perished, while he went on.

By the time he died Sunday at a nursing home in southern Illinois’ Nashville, Brown’s story was well-chronicled, by one author’s account offering an encouraging road map for veterans recovering from their own wounds in many wars.

"Doc’s story had as much relevance for today’s wounded warriors as it did for the veterans of his own era," said Kevin Moore, co-author of the recently released "Forsaken Heroes of the Pacific War: One Man’s True Story," which details Brown’s experience.

"The underlying message for today’s returning veterans is that there’s hope, not to give in no matter how bleak the moment may seem," added Moore, whose nephew just returned from military duty in Afghanistan. "You will persevere and can find the promise of a new tomorrow, much like Doc had found."

Brown, recognized in 2007 at an annual convention of Bataan survivors as the oldest one still living, couldn’t muster the strength to talk about his experiences until about 15 or so years ago, said his granddaughter, Susan Engelhardt of Pinckneyville, Ill.

"I’m not a big military buff at all. But just reading the story about the death march and the situation in the Philippines, it’s an incredible story. And incredibly sad," Engelhardt said. "He’s an incredible man, and he had an incredible legacy. He came through horrible times and came out on top, rebuilding his life. But so many of those men and women triumphed."

Brown’s account described the torment that came about every mile as the marchers passed wells U.S. troops dug for natives but weren’t allowed to drink from once they became prisoners. Filipinos who tried to throw fruit to the marchers frequently were killed.

Brown remained in a POW camp from early 1942 until mid-September 1945, living solely on rice. The once-athletic man — he lettered in baseball, football, basketball and track in high school — saw his weight whither by some 80 pounds to less than 100 by the time he was freed. Lice and disease were rampant.

Despite the hardships, Brown focused on bright spots, including a prisoner called on to fix Japanese soldiers’ radios. The prisoner managed to steal radio parts, scraping together enough components to build a functioning unit of his own. Brown helped craft a listening tube for the device, which brought the captives news from San Francisco that the U.S. actually had won a battle the Japanese soldiers were celebrating as a naval victory.

"He had this incredible spirit to live and overcome," Moore said. "Positive thinking or whatever you call it, he survived."

Born in 1905 in North Platte, Neb., Brown was the godson of Wild West folk hero "Buffalo Bill" Cody, who often let the boy sit on his lap and tug his beard. Brown moved with his family to Council Bluffs, Iowa, after his father — a railroad engineer — died when a locomotive engine exploded.

He studied dentistry at Creighton University in the 1920s and was called to active duty in 1937, leaving behind a wife, children and a decade-old dental practice his war injuries prevented him from resuming.

By the time the war ended in 1945, the 40-year-old Brown was nearly blind, had weathered a broken back and neck and suffered through more than a dozen diseases including malaria, dysentery and dengue fever.

He took two years to mend, and a doctor told him to enjoy the next few years because he had been so decimated he would be dead by 50. But Brown soldiered on, moving to California, attending college again and renting out properties to the era’s biggest Hollywood stars, including Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland. He became friends with John Wayne and Roy Rogers, doing some screen tests along the way.

"I think he had seen so much horror that after the war, he was determined to enjoy his life," Moore said.

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Hi,
I’d like to know something about this "Schwimmveste". I have read on this forum that someone has called it mod. 44.
Is it possible to know something more? It was created for Kriegsmarine or Luftwaffe crew? Is it correct to speak like mod.44? In which year it entered service?
And again … why can not I see old pictures of this "Schwimmveste"?

On he website "The Historic flying clothing company" I found this info:

"Luftwaffe Marked Kriegsmarine Schwimmweste
Manufactured in drab yellow rubberised cotton canvas with twin inflatable lobes to the front interconnected with an inflatable horseshoe neck section. Simple canvas webbing waist and back straps. CO2 inflation cylinder to lower right lobe and oral inflation tubes for emergency back-up/top-up. Overall condition is reasonably good. The material is good and flexible although a bit grubby. It has a few small tears including one where the front lobes connect with the collar and a period patch to the front. The back strap has some fraying and the lower attachment point for this has significant fraying and the 2 metal rings are corroded. The waist belt and metal adjusters are good. The inflation cylinder is very good and retains much of its original paintwork. This is dated 7-44. The main inflation tube is quite good but the collar tube is severed close to the exit point. There are some slightly unclear markings \’GBR\’? and a serial number and 1938 (?) date. Interstingly/unusually there is also a Luftwaffe acceptance stamp. Although a Kriegsmarine schwimmweste perhaps this might have been used by the Luftwaffe Air Sea Rescue Service (Seenotdienst) crews on their flying boats? Stock code MW16095.

So, I must think was born for Luftwaffe?

Please, can you answer to all my question…

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Hello, A friend bought this knife recently, and I promised him I would try to identify it. From the limited research I have done, it appears to be a firemans dress bayonet. Excuse the poor pics please, I did these at work. What say you? Is it a reproduction, or WWII era?
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