Tec 4 Robert Eugene Emlay

Parents: Fred O. Emlay & Agnes Molina-Emlay

Siblings: 3 brothers, 1 sister

    Brother: S/Sgt. Charles E. Emlay

Hometown: Alameda, California

Inducted: 10 February 1941 - Salinas Army Air Base

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

            - 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:

    - 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

Died:

    - 28 May 1942 - dysentery

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  J    Row:  2   Grave:  10

    -Note: Robert Emlay is buried next to his brother, Charles

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