Pvt. Lloyd H. Grever
Born: 20 November 1918 - Sappa, Nebraska
Parents: Charles A. & Esta M. Grever
Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother
Home: Harlan County, Nebraska
Occupation: farmhand
Inducted:
    - U.S. Army
        - 1941
Training:
    - Fort Knox, Kentucky
Units:
    - 19th Ordnance Battalion
        - Company A reorganized as 17th Ordnance Company
    - 17th Ordnance Company
Overseas Duty:
    - Philippine Islands
Engagements:
    - Battle of Luzon
        - 8 December 1942 - 6 January 1942
    - Battle of Bataan
        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942
Prisoner of War:
    - 9 April 1942
        - Death March
Prison Camp:

            - POWs started march at Mariveles on the southern tip of Bataan
            - ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor
                - American artillery returned fire

                    - three Japanese guns knocked out
            - San Fernando - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                - Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar
                - POWs who died remained standing
            - Capas - POWs leave boxcars - dead fall out of cars
            - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

 - Philippines
        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as a POW camp
            - there was only one water spigot for the entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - the Japanese opened a new camp, at Cabanatuan, to lower death rate

Died:
    - 27 May 1942
        - dysentery
Buried:

     - Camp O'Donnell Cemetery

Reburied:
    - Stamford Cemetery - Stamford, Nebraska
        - Grave:  D 106


 

 


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