Pvt. Wando A. Hart

Parents: Wayne & Vergil Hart

Siblings: 1 sister

Home: Cook County, Georgia

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 11 September 1940 - Fort Benning, Georgia

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

POW: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POWs ran past Japanesee 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: 

    - Camp O'Donnell 

            - unfinished Filipino training base
            - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp
            - only one water spiget for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

    - Cabanatuan

    - Bilibid Prison

Died: 4 March 1944 - blood poisoning

Buried: 

    - Andersonville National Cemetery - Andersonville, Georgia

        - Section: A    Site: 13854

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