Pvt. Wayne Sylvester George Jr.

Parents: Wayne S. George Sr. & Christine M. George

Siblings:1 sister, 1 brother

Hometown: Independence, Washington

Enlisted: 

    - Washington National Guard

        - 16 November 1939

    -U.S. Army

        - 16 September 1940 - Prosser, Washington

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Unit: 

    - 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 the southern tip of Bataan
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                    - 100 POWs put into each car
                    - dead remained standing
            - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead fell to floor
            - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell 

POW Camps:

    - Philippines:

        - 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

        - Clark Airfield

            - POWs built runways and revetments 

        - Cabanatuan

    - Japan

        - Omine Machi

            - POWs worked in coal mine

Hell Ship:

    - Canadian Inventor

        - Sailed: Manila - 4 July 1944

        - Returned:  - 4 July 1944 - boiler problems

            - POWs remained in holds for fifteen days

        - Sailed: 16 July 1944

           - additional boiler problems

           - left behind by convoy

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 23 July 1944

           - salt loaded into hold

        - Sailed: 4 August 1944

        - Arrived: Keelung, Formosa - 5 August 1944

           - remained for twelve days for boiler repairs

        - Sailed: 17 August 1944

        - Arrived: Naha, Okinawa

            - additional boiler problems

            - stayed six days

        - Sailed: Unknown

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 1 September 1944

Liberated:

    - 15 September 1945

Promoted: corporal

Discharged: 31 October 1950 - disability

Died:

    - 8 November 1954 - Richland, Washington

Buried:

    - Prosser Cemetery - Prosser, Washington 

        - Block:  32,   Lot: 8,  Grave:  4 

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