Sgt. David H. Duff

Parents: David & Edith Duff

Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother

Home: 672 Livingston Avenue - Columbus, Ohio

Education:

    - left high school after junior year 

Occupation: Machinist

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 22 January 1941 - Ft. Hayes, Columbus, Ohio

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 start 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 

         - Cabanatuan  #1

Died:

    - 8 September 1942 - dysentery 

        - Approximate time of death - 12:30 PM

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery

        - remains of five POWs could not be positively identified 

Reburied:

    - 15 February 1950 

        - Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery - Saint Louis, Missouri

            - Section:  78   Site:  989 - 990 

           - site was centrally located for all the families to travel to 

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