Pvt. Alfred Raymond Langley

Enlisted: Wisconsin National Guard

Occupation: Truck Driver

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army - 25 November 1940 - Janesville, Wisconsin

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

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 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: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - 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

Hell Ship:

    - Clyde Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 23 July 1943

        - Arrived: Moji - 7 August 1943

    - Japan: Fukuoka #17

        - Work: coal mining

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 22 June 1946

Died: 22 September 1987 - Snyder, Texas

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