Pvt. Raymond E. Hopkins

Father: Everett Hopkins & Elizabeth A. Books-Hopkins

    - parents divorced 

    - father remarried: Malinda Mast

Siblings: 1 sister, 3 half-brothers

Hometown: Highland, Iowa

Home: Multnomah County, Oregon

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 16 September 1940 - Portland, Oregon

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

        - cook's school

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

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 leave 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 #1

Died:

    - 13 June 1942 - dysentery

Memorial: 

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

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