Barretto

Born: 9 March 1919 - California

Mother: Thomas & Rose Barretto

Home: 12 Santa Clara Avenue - Salinas, California

Enlisted: California National Guard

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 10 February 1941 - Salinas Army Air Base

Training:

- Fort Lewis, Washington

Unit:

- 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

- Battle of Bataan

- 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War:

- 9 April 1942

    - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
        - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
            - Americans on Corregidor returned fire
        - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
            - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
            - 100 POWs packed into each car
            - POWs who died remained standing
        - Capas - dead fell to floor as living left boxcars
        - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps:

- Philippines:

- Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate

- Cabanatuan #1

Died:

- 11 July 1942 - cerebral malaria

- Approximate time of death: 1:00 AM

Buried:

- Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery

Reburied

- 1949 - Garden of Memories Memorial Park - Salinas, California