Gallia

Born: 1916 - Lavaca County, Texas

Parents: Jacob Gallia & Annie Zbranek-Gallia

Siblings: 3 brothers, 3 sisters

Home: Justice Township, Nueces County, Texas

Occupation: farmhand

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 17 March 1941 - Ft. Sam 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

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

POW 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

Died: 13 May 1942 - dysentery

Buried:

- Camp O'Donnell Cemetery

- Section: F Row: 1 Grave: 7

Reburied:

- American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

- Plot: A Row: 1 Grave: 211