How John Burk’s Past Saved Him from Execution

John Burk languished for 3 months in 1943 in Manila’s medieval-era dungeon. Then the sentence came: Execution.

The date was set. The prison guards forced him to dig his own grave.

When suddenly…

Burk’s past came back to save him, and possibly the lives of three fellow sailors.

At the same time, one of those sailors, William Patton, was involved in a cross-ocean love triangle – that he knew nothing about.

Discover the bizarre-but-true stories of these two Navy men.

This is the second of 2 episodes about how 4 Navy men hid from the Japanese – and the consequences of doing so.

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