Parents: Elmer & Catherine Killinger

Siblings:  1 sister (known)

Hometown: Pomeroy, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army 

        - 7 February 1941 - Fort Hayes - Columbus, Ohio

Training: 

    - Ft. Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

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 on Corregidor

               - American artillery on Corregidor returned fire

            - San Fernando -POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to haul

              sugarcane

               - each boxcar could hold eight horses or forty men

               -  Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar

               - POWs who died remained standing

            - Capas - POWs left boxcars - dead POWs fell to the floor

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

POW Camps: 

    Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino Army training base 

            - Japanese put camp into use as POW camp

            - one water spigot for the entire camp

            - as many as fifty POWs died each day 

            - POWs went out on work details to get out of camp 

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died:

    - 6 August 1942 - dysentery & malaria

        - Approximate time of death - 4:00 AM

        - the report kept at Cabanatuan states the cause of death was diphtheria

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  D   Row:  4   Grave:  7