Pvt. George A. Christy

Parents: Charles & Barbra Christy

Siblings: Unknown

Home: Saint Joseph, Missouri

Enlisted:

    - Missouri National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 10 February 1941

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:

    - Sunday - 19 July 1942 - dysentery

        - Approximate time of death - 2:15 P.M.

Buried:

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

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