Pvt. Ira Warren

Born: 15 June 1916 - Seth, West Virginia Parents: Ebon C. Warren & Ethel Holstein-Warren Siblings: 3 brothers, 2 sisters, 1 half-sister Hometown: Seth, West Virginia Occupation: coal miner Inducted:     - U.S. Army         - 10 March 1941 - Camp Wolters, Texas Training:     - Fort Lewis, Washington Unit:     - 194th Tank Battalion Engagements:     - Battle of Luzon         - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942     - Battle of Bataan         - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 Prisoner of War:     - 9 April 1942         - 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 camp         - Japanese put it into use as POW camp         - one water spigot for entire camp         - as many was 50 POWs died each day         - Japanese opened new camp to lower death rate     - Cabanatuan Died:     - 19 July 1942 - cerebral malaria         - Approximate time of death: 8:00 AM Buried:     - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery         - after the war, his remains could not be positively identified         - reburied as an "Unknown" at the new American Military Cemetery Memorial:     - Tablets of the Missing         - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

 

 

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