[1] Brown recorded the events he witnessed in secret using a small writing tablet and pencil hidden inside his canvas bag's lining.

[1] Following the Bataan Death March, Brown endured a three-year imprisonment in a Japanese POW camp from 1942 until he was liberated in the middle of September 1945.

[2] Brown became afflicted with more than twelve diseases while in the camp, including dengue fever, malaria and dysentery.

[2] He was unable to return to dentistry or reopen his practice due to the injuries he sustained in the march and the POW camp.

[2] He rented houses and other properties to some of Hollywood's major figures of the time, including Olivia de Havilland and Joan Fontaine.

[2] He later moved from California to southern Illinois in 1998, settling in the town of Pinckneyville to live with his daughter.

[2] Albert Brown died in a nursing home in Nashville, Illinois, on August 14, 2011, at the age of 105.

[4] Brown was survived by his daughter, Peggy Doughty; son, Graham; twelve grandchildren, twenty-eight great-grandchildren and nineteen great-great-grandchildren.