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Sgt. Roger C. Dery |
| Born: 17 November 1917 - Bear Creek,
Wisconsin Parents: Rosmer & Lydia Dery Siblings: 1 sister Home: 974 Jackson Street, Janesville, Wisconsin - rented a room Occupation: radio repairman Enlisted: Wisconsin National Guard Inducted: - U.S. Army - 25 November 1941 - Janesville, Wisconsin Training: - Fort Knox, Kentucky - radio operator school - Camp Polk, Louisiana - took part in maneuvers in the late summer of 1941 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 - 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: - Philippine Islands: - Camp O'Donnell - unfinished Filipino training base - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp - only one water spiget for entire camp - as many as 50 POWs died each day - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate - Cabanatuan Died: - 15 July 1942 - dysentery - Approximate time of death - 2:00 AM Buried: - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery Reburied: - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands |
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