Sgt. Howard C. Barry

Parents: Unknown

Siblings: Unknown

Married: Mrs. L. Barry

Home: Aberdeen, Washington

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 8 April 1941 - Tacoma, Washington

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 

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died:

    - 12 July 1942 - cerebral malaria

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  L   Row:  13   Grave:  133

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