Roberts

Born: 7 September 1925 - Saint Louis, Missouri

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 28 January 1941 - Jefferson Barracks - St. Louis, Missouri

- lied about his age

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

- 753rd Tank Battalion

- 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

- Fort Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

-16 years old when he became a POW

           - 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

- San Fernando

- Port Area - Manila

Hell Ship: Unknown

- Japan:

- Fukuoka Camp #3

- Work: Yawata Steel Mills

Liberated: 11 September 1945

Military Career:

- Korea

- Viet Nam

Rank: Sergeant First Class

Discharged: 31 July 1962

Home: 2900 South Valley View Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada

Died: 19 June 2000 - Nevada

Buried:

- Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery - Boulder City, Nevada

Section: J Site: 1114