Tec 5 Robert A. Brown

Parents: Unknown

Siblings: Unknown

Hometown: Aberdeen, Washington

    - 1940 - lived with aunt & uncle 

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 8 April 1941 - Tacoma, Washington

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

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 the southern tip of Bataan

            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

                - Corregidor returned fire
            - San Fernando - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars

            - each car could hold eight horses or forty men 

            - 100 POWs packed into each car - those who died remained standing
            - Capas - POWs leave boxcars - dead fall out of cars
            - walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps:

    - Philippine Islands:

        - 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 

Died:

    - 12 September 1942 - tonsillitis & dysentery

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery 

Reburied:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  D   Row:  12   Grave:  232

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