Austin Shofner
Military Person
1916 –
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Who is Austin Shofner?
Brigadier General Austin Conner Shofner was a United States Marine Corps officer who was captured during the Battle of Corregidor and escaped in the first and only successful escape from a Japanese prisoner of war camp. He joined the Philippine resistance, and later returned to command units of the Marine Corps in the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa.
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- Born
- Mar 3, 1916
Bedford County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Tennessee
- Died
- May 5, 2024
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on July 23, 2013
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