Cpl. Joseph Sanchez

Home: Los Angeles, California

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 29 March 1941

Training: 

    - Unknown

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

        - joined A Company at Angel Island

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942 

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 

            - lost right leg when it was hit by bullet in the knee

            - left at Hospital #2, Bataan 

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - did not do death march because he was hospitalized

POW Camps:

    - Philippine Islands:

        - Cabanatuan 

        - Bilibid Prison

            - POWs in prison considered too ill to be sent to Japan

            - saved the life of Ken Porwoll who had been taken to the prison after

              being left behind POW when his POW detachment was sent to Japan

Liberated:

    - 4 February 1945

Promoted: Corporal

Died: February 1986 - Castroville, California

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