Pfc. Charles Albert Carter

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

         - 28 March 1941 - Fort Hayes - Columbus, Ohio

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

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

        - Las Pinas Detail -12 December 1942 - April 1944

            - Work: built runways

        - Bilibid Prison

    - Japan:

        - Oeyama Camp 

        - Osaka #3

            - Work: laborers - nickel refinery

Hell Ship: 

    - Nissyo Maru

        Sailed: Manila - 14 July 1944

        Arrived: Moji, Japan - 6 August 1944

Liberated: 2 September 1945

Promoted: Sergeant

Died: 19 April 1965

Buried: Memorial Park Cemetery - Zanesville, Ohio

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