Pvt. Felix Flores

Parents: Luciano & Augustino Flores

Siblings: 3 sisters, 1 brother

Home: Bee County, Texas

Inducted: U. S. Army 

    - 20 March 1941 - Fort Sam 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

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

    Japan: 

        - Fukuoka Camp #17 - Link #2

            - Work: coal mining

Hell Ship: 

    - Clyde Maru  

        - Sailed: Manila -  26 July 1943

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 7 August 1943

Died:

    - 22 December 1943 - pneumonia 

Buried:

    - Waldheim Cemetery - Tynan, Texas 

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