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Pfc. Edward J. Lenio |
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1917 - Pennsylvania
Parents: Stanley & Josephine Lenio Siblings: 4 sisters, 1 brother Hometown: Warren, Ohio Inducted: - U. S. Army - 28 March 1941 - Cleveland, Ohio 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 Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor - American artillery on Corregidor returned fire - San Fernando -POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men - Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar - POWs who died remained standing - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead POWs fell to the floor - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell POW Camps: - Philippine Islands: - Camp O'Donnell - unfinished Filipino Army training base - Japanese put camp into use as POW camp - one water spigot for the entire camp - as many as fifty POWs died each day - Japanese opened new camp at Cabanatuan to lower death rate - Lenio was too ill to be moved to the camp Died: 31 May 1942 - dysentery Buried: - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila |
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