Cpl. James D. Fox

Parents: Roy & Estella Fox

Siblings: 1 sister

Hometown: Rochester, Missouri

Enlisted: Missouri National Guard

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 10 February 1941 - Saint Joseph, Missouri

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

        - truck driver 

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

        - B Company

        - reassigned to Headquarters Company

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 left boxcars - dead fell 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 

Died:

    - 8 June 1942 - dysentery

        - death roster from Camp O'Donnell has 9 June 1942 as date of death

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  L   Row:  2   Grave: 68

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