Pvt. Russell S. Garrison

Home: 3051 California Street, San Francisco, California

    - lived in San Jose - 1920

    - lived in San Diego - 1930

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

       - 1 April 1941 - San Francisco, California

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

        - 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942 

    - Battle of Bataan

        - 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

            - started march at Mariveles at southern tip of Bataan

            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor 

            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars

                - boxcars could hold eight horses or forty men

                - 100 POWs put into each car - those who died remained standing

            - POWs left boxcars at Capas - dead fell out of cars

            - 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 #1

Died:

    28 June 1942 - malaria

        - Approximate time of death - 6:00 P.M.

Buried:

    - Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery

Memorial:

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

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