Parents: Abram & Nellie Altman

Siblings: 1 sister, 2 brothers

Married: Ruth H. Altman

Home: 705 Northeast Eighth Steet - Amarillo, Texas

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - Unknown

Training: 

    - Unknown

Unit: 

    - joined 194th Tank Battalion as it prepared to leave for the Philippine Islands

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

           - started march at Mariveles on southern tip of Bataan
           - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
           - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
               - 100 POWs packed into each boxcar
               - those who died remain standing
           - Capas - living left cars - dead fell out of boxcars
           - POWs walked last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell 

POW Camps:

    - Philippines:

        - 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 #1

Hell Ship:

    - Arisan Maru

        - Boarded: 10 October 1944

        - Sailed: Manila -11 October 1944

        - Arrived: Palawan Island - 11 October 1944

        - Sailed: 20 October 1944

        -Arrived: Manila - 20 October 1944

        -Sailed: 21 October 1944

        - Sunk: 24 October 1944

             - Only nine POWs of 1803 POWs survived the sinking

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing

        - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

Note: It appears Altman's wife was killed in a car accident in 1943.