Pfc. Malcolm S. Webb

Parents: Lyndzo Webb & Lucy Renfro-Webb

Siblings: 2 brothers, 3 sisters 

Home: 2603 South Fourth Street - Louisville, Kentucky

Education: grade school

Occupation: railroad worker

Enlisted: 29 October 1940 - Fort Knox, Kentucky

Unit:

    - 19th Ordnance Battalion

        - A Company reorganized as 17th Ordnance Company 

    - 17th Ordnance Company

    - Provisional Tank Group Headquarters 

Training:

    - Ft. Knox, Kentucky

Overseas Duty:

    - Ft. Stotsenburg - Philippine Islands

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War:

    - 9 April 1941

        - Death March

            - started march at Mariveles on the southern tip of Bataan
            - San Fernando - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars

                - boxcars could hold eight horses or forty men

                - 100 men put into each boxcar

                - those who died remained standing
            - Capas - POWs leave boxcars - dead fall out of cars
            - walk last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell 

POW Camps:

    - Philippine Islands:

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino Army training base

            - Japanese put base into use as POW camp

            - one water spigot for the entire camp

            - As many as 50 POWs died each day

            - Japanese opened new camp at Cabanatuan in an attempt to lower death rate

            - Webb left behind be he was considered "too ill" to be moved

Died:

    - 29 June 1942 - beriberi & dysentery

        - Approximate time of death: 9:00 AM

Buried:

    - Camp O'Donnell Cemetery

        - after the war, is remains could not be positively identified

        - buried as an "Unknown" at the new American cemetery 

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

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