User:Wbowen72

My name is William Bowen and I have been retired for 12 years. I was a packaging deveopment engineer with American National Can Co. I have spent much of my retirement time researching the sinking of the WWII Japanese prison ship Arisan Maru. I published the entire roster on the internet of the men lost and answered many contacts from relatives seeking information. My father died in the sinking along with 1792 other allied prisoners. This is the greatest single loss of American life in such a sinking. There were only eight survivors. My father, a professional soldier who was traped in the Philippines when the War was started with the attacks of December 7, 1941. He was a guerrilla fighter until capture in April 1943. His story is told in the book "The Intrepid Guerrillas of North Luzon" by Bernard Norling.