2nd Lt. Alfred J. Herbold

Parents: Alfred E. Herbold & Rose Ann Crowley-Herbold

Siblings: 4 sisters, 2 brothers

Hometown: Saint Joseph, Missouri

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 10 February 1941

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

        - assigned to D Company, 192nd Tank Battalion

        - company attached to 194th but remained under command of the 192nd 

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

           - started march at Mariveles on southern tip of Bataan
           - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor
           - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars
               - 100 POWs packed into each boxcar
                   - those who died remain standing
           - Capas - living left cars - dead fell out of 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 #1

        - Port Area Detail

            - POWs worked on docks in Manila

Hell Ship: 

    - Oryoku Maru

        - Boarded: 13 December 1944

            -1619 POWs boarded onto ship

        - Sailed: 14 December 1944

            - ship attacked by American planes

            - attack continued the next day

        - Sunk: 15 December 1944

            - Japanese abandoned ship

            - planes stop attack when they saw the large number of men climbing out of the

              ship's holds

            - Japanese fire at POWs as they swam ashore

            - survivors held on tennis courts

            - POWs taken to Cabanatuan

            - taken by train to San Fernando, La Union

                - remained there from 24 December 1944 - 27 December 1944

    - Enoura Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 27 December 1944

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 31 December 1944

        - Sunk: 9 January 1945 - sunk by American planes

            - Herbold wounded

Died: 9 January 1945  - sinking Enoura Maru

        - Herbold's remains taken ashore and cremated

        - buried in mass grave on Formosa

Buried:

    - National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific- Honolulu, Hawaii

        - Plot: E   Row: G    Grave: 6279

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