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Sgt. Donald Kenneth Semrow |
| Born: 4 January 1922 -
Janesville,
Wisconsin Parents: George P. Semrow & Alice L. McPherson-Semrow - father died while Donald was a child - mother died when he was 17 - Donald and his brother, Bruce, were taken in by William & Marjorie Goselin Siblings: 2 sisters, 4 brothers Home: 305 South Pearl Street - Janesville, Wisconsin - Note: Donald gave his home address while a POW as: - 191 West Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul, Minnesota Occupation: janitor Enlisted: Wisconsin National Guard Inducted: - U.S. Army - 25 November 1940 Training: - Fort Knox, Kentucky - Camp Polk, Louisiana - 192nd Tank Battalion took part in the Louisiana maneuvers of 1941 Overseas Duty: - Ft. Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands - 192nd arrived in Philippines on Thanksgiving Day, 1941 Engagements: - Battle of Luzon - Battle of Bataan - A Company was last military unit to enter Bataan Prisoner of War: - 9 April 1941 - Death March - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan - POWs ran past Japanese 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: - Camp O'Donnell - unfinished Filipino training base - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp - only one water spigot for entire camp - as many as 50 POWs died each day - Japanese opened Cabanatuan in attempt to lower death rate among POWs - Claude was too ill to be sent to the camp Died: - 22 July 1942 - dysentery Buried: - Camp O'Donnell Cemetery Reburied: - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands - Plot: N Row: 13 Grave: 91 |
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