Pvt. Horace Bennett

Parents: Lee Bennett & Mattie Landrum-Bennett

Siblings:  4 sisters, 3 brothers

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army 

        - 18 March 1941 - Houston, Texas

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky- 

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units: 

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd Tank Battalion

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: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

          - 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

Liberated: 30 January 1945

Discharged: 31 January 1946

Married:

    - Wilma Annie Pegues 

Died:

    - 27 February 1975 - Houston, Texas

Buried:

    - Lynches Chapel Cemetery - Alto, Texas 

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