Taylor

Born: 23 January 1919 - Normangee, Texas

Parents: Monroe Taylor & Lena Long-Taylor

Siblings: 2 brothers, 2 sisters

Hometown: Bald Prairie, Texas

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 20 March 1941 - Houston, Texas

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units:

- 753rd Tank Battalion

- 192nd Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- 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

- Cabanatuan

Japan:

Kawasaki 2-B

Work: Stevedore & steel mill work

Omori Camp

Work: Iron works & docks

Hell Ship: Unkown

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 25 May 1946

Married: Edith

Children: 2 Sons, 1 Daughter

Died: 7 August 2005

Buried:

- Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery - San Antonio, Texas

- Section: 23 Site: 592