Born:  June 1922 - Wisconsin Parents: Roy Berger & Linda Emily Maahs-Berger     - mother died in 1935 Home: 506 Linn Street - Janesville, Wisconsin Siblings: 1 brother, 2 sisters Enlisted:  Wisconsin National Guard     - 18 years old when inducted Inducted:      - U. S. Army         - 25 November 1940 -  Janesville, Wisconsin Training:     - Fort Knox, Kentucky     - Camp Polk, Louisiana 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 started march at the southern tip of Bataan                 - ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor                 - Corregidor returned fire             - San Fernando                 - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars known as "Forty or Eight"                     - each car could hold forty men or eight horses                 - 100 POWs put into each car                 - POWs who died remained standing             - Capas                 - dead fall to floor of boxcars as living leave boxcars                 - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell POW Camps:     - Philippine Islands         - Camp O'Donnell             - unfinished Filipino Army Base             - one water spigot for the entire camp             - as many as 50 POWs died each day         - Cabanatuan             - Japanese opened camp in an attempt to lower death rate among POWs Died:     - 1 June 1942 - malaria, dysentery & inanition         - Approximate time of death - 9:00 PM Reburied:     - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands         - buried as an "unknown" since his remains could not be positively identified Memorial:     - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands