Tec 5 Alvin C. Brod

Parents: Adam & Emma Brod

    - father died - 1915

    - Stepfather: Henry P. Vollertsen

Siblings: 1 brother, 1 half-sister, 1 half-brother

Residence: Deering, North Dakota - 1930

    - next of kin listed as Mrs. Marion Murray - Philadephia, Pennsylvania

Home: Missoula County, 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 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 remain 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:

    - 9 June 1942 - inanition

Memorial:

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

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