S/Sgt. Walter C. King

Parents: Unknown

Home: Buchanan County, Missouri

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army

        - 10 February 1941

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 Japanesee artillery firing at Corregidor
                - Americans on Corregidor returned fire
            - 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 - dead fell to floor as living left boxcars
            - POWs walked 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 

        - Clark Airfield

            - POWs built runways and revetments with picks and shovels 

        - Cabanatuan

    - Formosa

        - Heito Camp

            - POWs cleared dried river of rocks  bed so sugarcane could be planted

        - Shirakawa Camp

        - Taihoku Camp

Liberated:

    - September 1945

Promoted: Staff Sergeant

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