Pvt. Robert Thomas Duncan

Parents: Earl R. & Gertrude Duncan

Siblings: 2 sisters, 3 brothers

Home: Hill County, Texas

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 19 March 1941 - Houston, Texas

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units: 

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

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

Died:

    - 14 April 1942 - bayoneted on Death March - Bataan, Philippine Islands

Declared Dead:

    - 1 February 1946 

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands 

    - Parents had a military headstone placed at Ridge Park Cemetery, Hillsboro, Hill County,

      Texas

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