Tec 5 Eldon L. Ingebretson

Parents: Jonas & Jennie Ingebretson

Siblings: 1 sister

Hometown: Devil's Lake, North Dakota

    - lived in Fargo, North Dakota, in 1936 

Married: Margaret

Residence: 112 Southwest Moreland Avenue - Los Angeles, California

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - March 1941 - Fargo, North Dakota

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

            - started march at Mariveles on the southern tip of Bataan
            - San Fernando - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars
            - Capas - POWs leave boxcars - dead fall out of cars
            - walk 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

        - Nielson Airfield

            - POWs built runways and revetments 

        - Cabanatuan

Died:

    - 12 September 1942 - dysentery

        - Approximate time of death - 7:40 A.M.

Memorial: 

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  N   Row:  13   Grave:  13

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