Pvt. Kenneth Alfred Haroldson

Home: 140 Newell Avenue - Lindstrom, Minnesota

Occupation: handyman

Enlisted:

    - 1941

        - U. S. Army

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 southern tip of Bataan

            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor 

            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars

                - boxcars could hold eight horses or forty men

                - 100 POWs put into each car - those who died remained standing

            - POWs leave boxcars at Capas - dead fall out of cars

            - POWs walk 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

Died:

    - 29 May 1942 - dysentery

Buried:

     - Camp O'Donnell Cemetery

Reburied:

     - Fort Snelling National Cemetery - Minneapolis, Minnesota

        - Interred: 8 November 1948

            - Section:  C-3   Grave:  7801 

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