Tec 5 Ingwell V. Bartleson

Parents: Oscar & Addie Bartleson

Siblings: 1 sister, 2 brothers

Hometown: Whitefish, Montana

Occupation: oil field worker

   - 1935 - lived in Sanist, North Dakota 

    - 1940 - lived in Cut Bank Township, Glacier County, Montana 

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 28 March 1941 - Fort Missoula, Montana

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

        - mechanic

Units: 

    - 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

        - Death March

          - started march at Mariveles on southern tip of Bataan

             - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor

                - Corregidor returned fire 

         - San Fernando 

            - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane

               - each car could hold 40 men or eight horses

               - Japanese pack 100 POWs into each car

               - those who died remained standing

         - Capas - living leave boxcars

             - dead fall to floor of cars

         - POWs walk the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps:

    - 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 

    - Tayabas Road Detail 

       - 300 POWs left Camp O'Donnell on 29 May 1942

        - three day trip to Tayabas Province

        - POWs built road with picks and shovels

        - food prepared in a rusty wheelbarrow 

        - death rate among POWs extremely high 

Died:

    - 12 June 1942 - Tayabas Road Detail

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery, Manila, Philippine Islands

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