Cederblom

Born: 23 September 1915 - Washington

Parents: Carl Cederblom & Alida Cederblom

- Address: 714 North Napa Street, Spokane, Washington

Siblings: 1 sister

Home: Salinas, California

Enlisted: California National Guard

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- - 10 February 1941 - Salinas Army Air Base

Training:

- Fort Lewis, Washington

Unit:

- 194th Tank Battalion

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:

- 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

Died:

- 19 August 1942 - dysentery

- Approximate time of death: 5:00 P.M.

Buried:

- American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

- Tablets of the Missing