Pvt. Wayne Wilbur Colvin

Born: 17 January 1908 - Waterloo, Iowa Parents: Archie B. Colvin & Maude McIntyre-Colvin Siblings: 1 brother Hometown: Cheyenne, Wyoming Inducted:     - U.S. Army Training:     - Fort Knox, Kentucky Overseas Duty:     - Philippine Islands Engagements:     - Battle of Luzon        - 8 December 1942 - 6 January 1942     - Battle of Bataan        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942 Prisoner of War:     - 9 April 1942         - Death March             - POWs started march at Mariveles on the southern tip of               Bataan             - POWs ran past Japanese artillery shelling Corregidor                 - American artillery returned fire - knock out three of the                   Japanese guns             - San Fernando - POWs put in small wooden boxcars used to               haul sugarcane                 - each boxcar could hold eight horses of forty men                 - 100 POWs were packed into each boxcar                 - POWs who died remained standing             - Capas - POWs left boxcars - those who died fall out of                boxcars             - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell POW Camps:     - Philippines:         - Camp O'Donnell             - unfinished Filipino training base             - Japanese put camp into use as a POW camp             - there was only one water spigot for the entire camp             - as many as 50 POWs died each day             - the Japanese opened a new camp, at Cabanatuan, to lower               death rate         - Cabanatuan     - Japan:         - Oeyama Work:     - POWs used as slave labor nichol mine Hell Ship:     - Nissyo Maru         - Sailed: Manila - 14 July 1944         - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 17 July 1944         - Sailed: 28 July 1944         - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 3 August 1944 Liberated:     - 2 September 1945 Note:  Mother died while he was a POW Died:     - 11 September 1963 Buried:     - Bethel Cemetery - Cheyenne, Wyoming         - Section:  F   Lot: 192  Sp A

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