Pvt. Dorsey W. Foshee

Parents: John W. & Ella Foshee

Home: State Route #1, PO Box 404 - Salinas, California

Enlisted: California National Guard

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 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      

            - POWs started march at Mariveles at the souther tip of Bataan

           - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

                - American artillery returned fire

                - shells landed among POWs

           - San Fernando - POWs put in small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane

               - boxcars could hold eight horses or forty men 

               - 100 POWs packed into each boxcar

               - POWs who died remained standing

           - Capas - POWs left cars - dead fell to floor

           - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell

POW Camps:

    - Camp O'Donnell

         - unfinished Filipino training base

        - Japanese put camp into use as POW camp

        - one water spigot for entire camp 

        - as many as 50 POWs died each day

        - Japanese opened new camp to lower death rate 

    - Cabanatuan #1

Died: 

   - 13 July 1942 - dysentery & inanition

        - Approximate time of death: 2:30 PM

Buried: 

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

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