T/Sgt Agusta R. Krause Jr.

Born: 1915 - Missouri Parents: Augusta R. Kruase Sr. & Alma Shewmaker-Krause Siblings: 2 sisters, 1 brother Hometown:     - Saint Joseph, Missouri Inducted:     - U.S. Army         - 10 February 1942 Training:     - Fort Lewis, Washington Unit:     - 194th Tank Battalion         - assigned to HQ Company         - originally member of C Company             - C Company was sent to Alaska Overseas Duty:     - 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 Japanesee 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:     - Philippines:         - Camp O'Donnell             - unfinished Filipino training base             - Japanese put camp into use as POW Camp             - only one water spiget for entire camp             - as many as 50 POWs died each day             - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate          - Cabanatuan #1     - Japan:         - Mitsushima             - POWs carried cement to build a dam Hell Ship:     - Nagato Maru         - Boarded: 7 November 1942         - Sailed: Manila - 11 November 1942         - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 14 November 1942         - Sailed: 17 November 1942         - Arrived: Pescadores Islands – 17 November 1942         - Sailed:  18 November 1942         - Arrived: Keelung, Formosa - 18 November 1942         - Sailed: 20 November 1942         - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 24 November 1942 Died:     - 28 June 1943         - dysentery & acute enteritis Buried:     - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands         - Plot: B    Row:  3   Grave:  140

 

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