Pfc. Robert J. Albert

Parents: Unknown

Home: Unknown

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 26 January 1941 - Fort Sheridan, Illinois

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

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 remained standing
           - Capas - living left cars - dead fell out of 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  

        - Scrap Metal Detail

        - Cabanatuan

    - Formosa

        - Toroku Camp

            - POWs leave camp - 20 January 1945

    - Japan

        - Sendai #3

            - Work: Mitsubishi Mining Company

Hell Ship:

    - Hokusen Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 3 October 1944

        - Arrived: Hong Kong - 11 October 1944

            - attacked by American planes - 13 October 1944

        - Sailed: 21 October 1944

        - Arrived: Takao - 9 November 1944

    - Melbourne Maru

        - Sailed: Takao, Formosa - 20 January 1945

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 23 January 1945

Liberated:

    - 12 September 1945

Discharged: 26 January 1946

Died: 7 June 1980 - Ann Arbor, Michigan

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