Pfc. George Yacob

    Note: living at Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory - Smithfield, Pennsylvania

               in 1930

Home: Contra Costa County, California

Occupation: farmhand

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 21 February 1941 - Sacramento, California

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

            - started march at Mariveles on the southern tip of Bataan

            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor
            - San Fernando - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars

            - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men

            - 100 POWs packed into each car

                - those who died remained standing
            - Capas - POWs leave boxcars - dead fall out of cars
            - 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 the entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died:

    - 15 September 1942- malaria & dysentery

        - Approximate time of death - 6:30 AM

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery

        - after the war, his 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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