Duncan

Born: 2 March 1918 - Hill, Texas

Parents: Earl R. & Gertrude Duncan

Siblings: 2 sisters, 3 brothers

Home: Hill County, Texas

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 19 March 1941 - Houston, Texas

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

- 753rd Tank Battalion

- 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

          - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanesee 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

Died:

- 14 April 1942 - bayoneted on Death March - Bataan, Philippine Islands

- Declared Dead: 1 February 1946