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Cpl. Laprade Dayton Brown |
| Born: August 1919 - Frankfort
Heights, Illinois - father died in 1919 - family lived with his mother's relatives Parents: Leona Dugger - mother married Thomas Dugger Siblings: 1 sister - Alberta Home: Chicago, Illinois - mother and step-father worked and resided at State Mental Hospital Enlisted: Illinois National Guard Inducted: - U.S. Army - 25 November 1940 Training: - Fort Knox, Kentucky - Camp Polk, Louisiana - 192nd Tank Battalion took part in the Louisiana maneuvers of 1941 Overseas Duty: - Ft. Stotsenburg, Philippine Islands Engagements: - Battle of Luzon - Battle of Bataan 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 - healthier POWs sent to camp - Calumpit Bridge Detail - POWs left Camp O'Donnell on 29 May 42 - trip took three days to work site - POWs severely mistreated by Japanese - became ill and was sent to Bilibid Prison - doctors refer to POW from this detail as "The Living Dead" - Bilibid Prison - 29 March 1943 - tuberculosis - Approximate time of death - 11:30 PM Buried: - Bilibid Hospital Burial Plot - Row: 3 Grave: 44 - Note: According to Chaplain Perry Wilcox, Lapade's burial was attended by a large group of POWs. Reburied: - Acacia Cemetery - Chicago, Illinois |
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