Pvt. Marvin Neal Everts

Parents: Percy Evrets & Nellie Moore-Everts

Siblings: 3 sisters, 5 brothers

Hometown: Sunnyside, Washington

Enlisted: Washington National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        -  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 at the southern tip of Bataan
            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
                - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men
                    - 100 POWs put into each car
                    - dead remained standing
            - Capas - POWs leave boxcars - dead fall to floor
            - POWs walked the 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:

    - Cabanatuan - 16 July 1942 - malaria & dysentery

        - Approximate time of death: 8:00 AM

Memorial:

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

Note:  Within a year of Marvin's death in the Philippines, his brother,

             Orval N. Everts, was Killed in Action in Tunisa, North Africa.

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