Causey

Born: 13 August 1917 - Arabi, Louisiana

Parents: Rudolph Causey & Ivy Smith-Causey

Siblings: 2 sisters

Home: St. Bernard Parish - Louisiana

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 started 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

Died:

- 23 May 1942 - malaria & dysentery

Buried:

- Port Hudson National Cemetery - Zachary, Louisiana

- 4 March 1949