Pvt. Raymond Otis Edens

    - name spelled "Raymon" on military records

Parents: Hiram Edens & Maud Carley-Edens

Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother

Hometown: Hough, Oklahoma

Occupation: farmer

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 19 March 1941

            - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

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

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

Died: 9 May 1942 - malaria & dysentery

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  A   Row:  15   Grave:  93 

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