Corporal Agapito E. "Gap" Silva (1919–2007), was another member of the 200th Coast Artillery Battalion who survived the Bataan Death March. He was held at Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines and assigned to the "burial details" when hundreds of prisoners were dying each month of disease and starvation. He was later transported to Fukuoka POW Camp #17, a Japanese prison camp near Omuta, Japan. There he was forced to work as a slave laborer in a coal plant.Vorenberg, Sue. Remembrance: Albuquerque WW II veteran Agapito Silva was Bataan Death March survivor. The Albuquerque Tribune, June 19, 2007. Retrieved on July 25, 2007. Silva narrated the following about his experiences as a prisoner of war:
