Tec 5 Alvin P. Hjulstad

Parents: Ole S. Hjulstad & Julie M. Jorgendatter-Hjulstad

Siblings:

    - 5 sisters

    - 3 brothers

Hometown: Wright, Minnesota

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 on the southern tip of Bataan
            - San Fernando - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars

                - boxcars could hold eight horses or forty men

                - 100 men put into each boxcar

                - those who died remained standing
            - Capas - POWs leave boxcars - dead fall out of cars
            - 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
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate  

        - Cabanatuan

Died: 10 July 1942 - dysentery & malaria

            - Approximate time of death: 4:00 PM

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery

Reburied:

    - May 1950 

        - Wright Public Cemetery - Wright, Carlton County, Minnesota

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