Pfc. Hobart G. McVay

Parents: Thomas & Mabel McVay

Siblings: 2 sisters

Home: Zanesville, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 23 January 1941

            - Ft. Hayes, Columbus, Ohio

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty:

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

POW: 

    - 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

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

Died:

    - 19 May 1942 - malaria

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - most likely buried in the cemetery in a grave marked as "Unknown" 

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