ResolveBy: Bob Welch On April 9, 1942, thousands of U. S. soldiers surrendered as the Philippines island of Luzon fell to the Japanese. But a few hundred Americans placed their faith in their own hands and headed for the jungles. One of them was twenty three year old Clay Conner Jr., who had never even camped before . . . The obstacles to Conners survival were as numerous as the enemy soldiers who ultimately put a price on his head: among them malaria, heat,