Pfc. Harvey Louis Finch

Mother: Bernard & Bertha Finch

    - parents divorced

Siblings: 3 sisters, 1 brother

Home: 1116 South 12th Street - Brainerd, Minnesota

Occupation: sewer construction

Enlisted: Minnesota National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 10 February 1941 - Brainerd, Minnesota

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 at southern tip of Bataan

            - POWs run past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor 

            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars

                - boxcars could hold eight horses or forty men

                - 100 POWs put into each car - those who died remained standing

            - POWs left boxcars at Capas - dead fell out of cars

            - 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 spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate   

        - Cabanatuan

Died:

    - 8 July 1942 - dysentery

        - Approximate time of death: 3:00 PM

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery

Reburied:

    - October 1949 - Evergreen Cemetery - Brainerd, Minnesota

Promoted: Tec 5 - posthumously

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