Pvt. Allen Franklin Sills

Parents: Thomas J. Sills & Lena Allen-Sills

Siblings: 3 brothers, 5 sisters

Hometown: Ennis, Texas

High School:

    - Ennis High School

        - Class of 1938

Occupation: grocery store clerk

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 21 March 1941 - Dallas, 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

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

Died:

    - 30 May 1942 - dysentery 

        - originally buried in Camp O'Donnell Cemetery

            - Section: K  Row: 5  Grave: 10

Buried:

    - October 1948 - Myrtle Cemetery - Ennis, Texas

        - buried next to his parents 

Note: Albert Allen in a roster he wrote had Allen Sills dying from cancer

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