Pvt. Gerald D. Foley

Parents: Unknown

Siblings: Unknown

Home: California

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
           - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan
            - POW 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 fall to floor as living leave 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

        - Clark Airfield

            - POWs built runways and revetments with picks and shovels 

        - Cabanatuan

    - Japan

        - Fukuoka #4B

Hell Ship:

    - Nissyo Maru

        - Sailed: Manila- 17 July 1944

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 3 August 1944

Liberated: August 1945

Discharged: 1 December 1946

Died: 2 October 1989

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