Parents: Charles L. & Lilly Eesley

Siblings: 3 brothers, 3 sisters

Hometown: Marion, Ohio

    - family later resided at 230 North Cassady Road, Columbus, Ohio

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 28 January 1941 - Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio

Training:

    - Ft. Knox, Kentucky

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 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 

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - 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 #1

Died:

    - 25 July 1942 - dysentery & malaria

        - Approximate time of death - 10:30 AM

Buried: American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

    - Plot:  N   Row:  15   Grave:  38