Giamalva

Born: 14 February 1915 - Harris County, Texas

Parents: Sam Giamalva & Rosalie Scalcia-Giamalva

Siblings: 6 sisters, 5 brothers

Hometown: 1403 Cook Street - Houston, Texas

Occupation: clerk - newspaper

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 20 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

- 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

- Battle of Bataan

- 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

           - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanese 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 spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate

- Cabanatuan #1

- Port Area Detail - Manila

13 June 1942 - 14 July 1944

Work: stevedore

- Japan:

Kamioka POW Camp

- Work: lead and zinc mining

Hell Ship:

- Nissyo Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 17 July 1944

- Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 27 July 1944

- Sailed: Takao - 28 July 1944

- Arrived: Moji - 3 August 1944

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 16 June 1946

Died: 8 February 1974 - Houston, Texas