Pvt. Robert William King

Parents: Arthur & Mabel King

Siblings: 1 brother, 1 sister

Home: Northwest McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 16 September 1940 - McMinnville, Oregon

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

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 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:

    - 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 die each day
            - Japanese open new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died:

    - 8 June 1942 - dysentery

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery 

Reburied:

    - 1949 - Evergreen Memorial Park, McMinnville, Oregon

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