2nd Lt. Carroll Max Guin

Parents: Edgar L.Guin & Anna Jane Mix-Guin

Siblings: 3 sisters, 5 brothers

Education: high school graduate, one year of college

Hometown: 703 Cora Street Rear -  Brainerd, Minnesota

Married: Agnes Guin

Children: 1 son

Occupation: automotive salvage

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 1941 - Fort Snelling, Minnesota

            - First Sergeant when inducted

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

       - assigned to D Company, 192nd Tank Battalion

        - D Company was attached to the 194th, but it remained under the command of

          the 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

           - started march at Mariveles on southern tip of Bataan
           - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
           - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
               - 100 POWs packed into each boxcar
                   - those who died remain standing
           - Capas - living left cars - dead fell out of 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

Hell Ship:

    - Oryoku Maru

        - 13 December 1944 - POWs boarded

        - Sailed: Manila - 14 December 1944

        - Arrived: Lingayen Gulf

             - 14 December 1944 - planes from the U.S.S. Hornet attack ship

                 - Japanese abandoned ship after grounding it 300 yards from Olongo Naval

                    Station 

                 - POWs left in holds; bullets ricochet into holds hitting POWs

             - 15 December 1944

                 - planes return in the morning and continue attack 

                 - Japanese order the POWs to abandon ship 

                 - the pilots stop attack when they see the large number of men climbing out

                   of the ship's holds

                 - POWs swim to shore under fire from Japanese machineguns 

                 - POWs who did not abandon ship were shot by the Japanese  

        - Sunk: 15 December 1944

                      - Lingayen Gulf, Philippine Islands

            - POWs taken to tennis courts and held for several days.  

                - 24 December 1944 - POWs taken by train to San Fernando, La Union

                - 25 December 1944 - train arrives at San Fernando, La Union

                    - POWs were marched to beach later the same day

                        - remained on beach for two days

                - 27 December 1944 - POWs forced to jump into barges 20 feet below them

                    - taken to Enoura Maru

                - 3 January 1945 - arrived Takao, Formosa

Died:

    - 9 January 1945 - of wounds from Oryoku Maru

        - since ship was docked at Formosa, bodies were buried in mass grave

        - POWs whose remains could not be identified were reburied as

           "unknowns" after the war at the Punch Bowl in Hawaii

Memorial:

    - Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery

        - Section:  4  Site:  1469

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