Devine

Born: 1919 - Kentucky
Parents: Ben Devine Sr. & Effie Devine
Nickname: Bud
Home: Mercer County, Kentucky
Occupation: worked on family farm
Wife: Ruth - married before he went overseas
Enlisted: Kentucky National Guard
Inducted:
    - U. S. Army
        - 25 November 1940 - Harrodsburg, Kentucky
Training:
    - Fort Knox, Kentucky
    - Camp Polk, Louisiana
        - 192nd Tank Battalion took part in Louisiana maneuvers of
          1941
Overseas Duty:
    - Fort Stotsenburg - 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 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
Died: 19 May 1942 - scurvy & malaria
    - Ben was so sick that he couldn't relieve himself
    - his lips were soars
        - Jack Field would wet his mouth to get it open and feed him
            - Bud stopped eating - died because he wanted to die
Buried:
    - Camp O'Donnell Cemetery
        - Section: G   Row: 8   Grave: 5
Reburied: American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands
    - Plot: D   Row: 2   Grave: 257