Eber

Born: 7 September 1914 - Ohio City, Ohio

Parents: Jacob & Anna Eber

Siblings: 1 brother, 1 sister

Home: State Route 18 - Norwalk, Ohio

Occupation: worked in rubber plant

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 22 March 1941 - Toledo, 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

POW:

- 9 April 1942

- Death March

- Mariveles - POWs start march at 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

Camps:

- Philippines:

- Camp O'Donnell

- unfinished Filipino Army training base

- Japanese put camp into use as POW camp

- one water spigot for the entire camp

- as many as fifty POWs died each day

- POWs go out on work details to get out of camp

- Japanese opened new camp at Cabanatuan to lower death rate

- John was considered too ill to be moved and remained behind at Camp O'Donnell

Died: 4 July 1942 - dysentery

Buried:

- 21 October 1948

- Milan Cemetery - Milan, Erie County, Ohio

- Andrews Section: Lot: 214