Pvt. Harry G. Wortman

    - lived in Niles, Ohio

Parents: Harry C. Wortman & Marqerite F. Higgins-Wortman

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother, 1 half-brother

Home: 709 6th Street - Rupert, Idaho

Married: Ruby Wortman

Children: 1 son

Occupation: mechanic - service station

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 26 February 1941 - Boise, Idaho

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - 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 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:

    - Philippine Islands:

        - 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 new POW camp to lower death rate  

        - Scrap Metal Detail

            - POWs tied vehicles together with ropes and drove them to San Fernando.

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died:

    - 24 March 1943 - beriberi

        - Approximate time of death - 5:45 PM

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery 

Reburied:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  L  Row:  12  Grave:  20

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