Pvt. Edward Arthur James Jr.

Parents: Edward A. Price Sr. & Mary Price

Siblings: 1 sister

Hometown: Price, Utah

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 1 April 1941 - Salt Lake City, Utah

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Unit: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March

             - Mariveles - POWs start march at southern tip of Bataan

             - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing at Corregidor

             - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars

                 - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men

                     - 100 POWs packed into each car

                     - POWs who died remained standing

                 - Capas - living left boxcars

                     - dead fell to floor of boxcars

                 - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell 

POW Camps:

    - Philippines:

        - 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

        - Bantanges, Bantanges

        - Cabanatuan

Hell Ship:

    - Arisan Maru

        - Boarded: 10 October 1944

        - Sailed: Manila -11 October 1944

        - Arrived: Palawan Island - 11 October 1944

        - Sailed: 20 October 1944

        - Arrived: Manila - 20 October 1944

        - Sailed: 21 October 1944

        - Sunk: 24 October 1944 - South China Sea

            - Only nine POWs of 1803 POWs survived the sinking

Memorial:

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

    - Parents also had a memorial dedicated to him at Price City Cemetery, Price City,

      Utah

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