Christ

Born: 14 February 1917 - Pennsylvania

Parents: Edward & Elizabeth Christ

Siblings: 3 brothers, 2 sisters

Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 28 March 1941 - Cleveland, Ohio

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

POW:

- 9 April 1942

-Death March

- Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan

- POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

- American artillery on Corregidor returned fire

- San Fernando -POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane

- each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men

- Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar

- POWs who died remained standing

- Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead POWs fell to the floor

- POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

Camps:

- Philippines:

- Camp O'Donnell

- unfinished Filipino Army training base

- Japanese put camp into use as POW camp

- one water spigot for the entire camp

- as many as fifty POWs died each day

- POWs went out on work details to get out of camp

- Cabanatuan

- Balanga

- Work: dock work

Died: 2 June 1942 - starvation & exhaustion

Burial: Arlington National Cemetery - Virginia

- Section: 34 Site: 2217