Here is some of his story:
http://www.aiipowmia.com/inter25/in050905bataan.html
If their experiences were horrific, then there are few words left to describe what Mims went through. He tried to escape from Camp O'Donnell but was caught seven days later. His punishment? His Japanese captors broke both his legs with a bulldozer blade, then left him in a dungeon where huge rats fought each other to lick his wounds.
Mims, now 83, said he owes his survival to Juanita, the half-American, half-Filipino woman who was a hero in her own right. They met in 1941 at a skating rink ("She fell hook, line and sinker for me," he said), and dated -- with chaperones -- until the surrender. During the occupation, she worked as a bookkeeper for the Japanese military. She would often catch glimpses of Mims in the prisoner of war camp, and she secretly smuggled messages to him with the assistance of kind Japanese guards.
Mims said Juanita also passed information to the American military resistance, a duty she continued throughout the war.
Eventually, Mims was placed on a hell ship and forced to work in a coal yard in Japan until the end of the war. He and Juanita were married on Oct. 14, 1945. He weighed 67 pounds; Juanita weighed 50.
They were married for 58 years when she died last February.