Pvt. Jean H. McCone

Parents: Selma McCone

    - father died when he was a child

    - mother married: John Hopkins

        - moved to Massachusetts

Siblings: 1 brother

Home: Marquette County , Wisconsin

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army 

        - 20 January 1941 - Milwaukee, 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 #1

Died: 

    - 12 October 1942 - dysentery

        - Approximate time of death - 2:30 AM

Buried: American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

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