Bradford

Born: Saint Joseph, Missouri

Hometown: St. Joseph, Missouri

Enlisted: Missouri National Guard

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 10 February 1941 -St. Joseph, Missouri

Training:

- Fort Lewis, Washington

Units:

- 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty:

- Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- Clark Field - watched attack from inside his tank

- 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 spigot for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate

- Cabanatuan #1

- Bilibid Prison

Died:

- 11 October 1942 - Bilibid Prison

- Cause: Unknown

Memorial:

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

Note: In his scrapbook, James McComas, of A Company, had Ray Bradford dying on

the death march on April 11, 1942. According to the document, Bradford was

buried near Cabcaban Airfield.