Pvt. Henry D. Bordner

Parents: William W. Bordner & Margaret A. Lyons-Bordner

Siblings: 1 sister, 1 brother

Nickname: "Harry"

Home: 1113 West Platinum Street, Butte, Montana

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 28 March 1941 - Fort Missoula, Montana

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 the southern tip of Bataan
            - San Fernando - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars

            - each car could hold eight horses or forty men 

            - 100 POWs packed into each car - those who died remained standing
            - Capas - POWs leave boxcars - dead fall out of cars
            - 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:

    - 20 October 1942 - malnutrition, malaria & dysentery

        - Approximate time of death: 1:00 P.M.

Memorial:

    - Tablets of the Missing - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

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