Pvt. Edward M. Haines

Hometown: Flushing, Ohio

Mother: Edith Haines-Edinburn

    - father died when Edward was seven years old

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 May 1940 - Cambridge, Ohio

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 Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

               - American artillery on Corregidor returned fire

            - San Fernando -POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane

               - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men

               -  Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar

               - POWs who died remained standing

            - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead POWs fell to the floor

            - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell 

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

           - unfinished Filipino Army training base 

            - Japanese put camp into use as POW camp

            - one water spigot for the entire camp

            - as many as fifty POWs died each day 

            - POWs went out on work details to get out of camp 

        - Cabanatuan

        - Port Area Detail

            - Work: stevedore

    Japan: 

         - Fukuoka Camp #1

            - Work: lumberyard

         - Kamioka Camp

            - Work:  zinc & lead mining - magnesium smelting

Hell Ship: 

    Nissyo Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 17 July 1944

            Note: Ship stopped at Takao, Formosa

        - Arrived: Moji - 3 August 1944 

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 25 January 1949

Died: 6 September 1982

Buried:

    - Long Island National Cemetery

        - Section:  2B   Site:  1061 

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