would not live to be 50 years old due to the extent of his injuries. However, he lived to be 105 years old. Post-war years Brown moved to Los Angeles, California, after World War II. He was unable to return to dentistry or reopen his practice due to the injuries he sustained in the march and the POW camp. Instead, Brown returned to college and became involved in rental properties, which he purchased and became a landlord. He rented houses and other properties to some of Hollywood's major figures of the time, including Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine. He developed personal friendships with Roy Rogers and John Wayne. He even read for some screen tests while dabbling in acting. He later moved from California to southern Illinois in 1998, settling in the town of Pinckneyville to live with his daughter. He did not openly discuss his experience on the Bataan Death March until the 1990s, approximately fifteen to twenty years before his death. In 2007, Brown was recognized as the oldest living survivor of the Bataan Death March by the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor, a veterans organization. The American War Library, which is located in Gardena, California, also named Brown as the oldest living World War II veteran at the time, though that has never been confirmed by other organizations. His experience during the march and war was chronicled in the 2011 book, Heroes of the Pacific War: One Man’s True Story, by Kevin Moore and Don Morrow. Albert Brown died in a nursing home in Nashville, Illinois, on August 14, 2011, at the age of 105. His wife of fifty-eight years, Helen Johnson Brown, died in 1985. Brown was survived by his daughter, Peggy Doughty; son, Graham; twelve grandchildren, twenty-eight great grandchildren and nineteen great-great grandchildren. References 1905 births 2011 deaths American centenarians Men centenarians American dentists Bataan Death March prisoners United States Army personnel of World War II Creighton University alumni Creighton Bluejays football players People from Council Bluffs, Iowa People from Los Angeles People from Pinckneyville, Illinois People from North Platte, Nebraska United States Army officers 20th-century dentists