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Tec 5 William C. P. Brown |
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1918 - Pennsylvania Parents: George F. & Sarah Brown Siblings: 2 brothers, 1 sister Home: 205 Bane Street - Newton Falls, Ohio Education: 2 years of high school Occupation: Inspector - Steel Mill Residence: Summit County, Ohio - U. S. Army 27 March 1941 - Cleveland, Ohio Training: - Fort Knox, Kentucky - Camp Polk, Louisiana
Units: - 753rd Tank Battalion - assigned to unit at Camp Polk - 192nd Tank Battalion Overseas Duty: - Philippine Islands - went to Philippines as a private 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 from southern tip of Bataan - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor - American artillery on Corregidor returned fire - San Fernando -POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men - Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar - POWs who died remained standing - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead POWs fell to the floor - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell Note: It was reported that Brown had died south of San Fernando on Death March. POW Camps: - Camp O'Donnell - unfinished Filipino Army training camp - Japanese put camp into use as POW camp - one water spigot for the entire camp - as many as fifty POWs died each day - Brown went out on bridge building detail to get out of camp - Bridge Building Detail - Calumpeit, Bulacan, Philippine Islands Died: - 25 June 1942 - Bridge Building Detail: - dysentery & malaria Buried: - Calumpit, Philippine Islands Reburied: - 13 April 1950 - Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery - Section: 79 Site: 42-44 |
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