Tec 5 James T. MorAN

Parents: John H. Moran & Margaret J. Davies-Moran

    - father died in 1932 

Siblings: 2 brothers

Home: Columbus, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 22 January 1941 - Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio

Training: 

    - Ft. Knox, Kentucky

        - mechanic

    - 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 

            - Moran was "too ill" to be moved to new camp

Died:

    - 22 June 1942 - dysentery

Buried:

    - Green Lawn Cemetery - Columbus, Ohio 

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