T/Sgt. Sydney G. Lang

Parents: Charles & Anna Lang

Siblings: Donald & Russell

Hometown:

    - Monterey, California

Enlisted: California National Guard

Inducted:

    - 10 February 1941

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington 

Engagements:

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War:

    - 9 April 1942

        - Death March:

            - strated march at Mariveles onsouthern tip of Bataan

            - Sidney carried his brother, Donald, who started the march with

              appendicitis, until he fell

            - Japanese guard bayoneted Donald

             - Sidney reaches San Fernando

                - POWs packed into small wooden boxcars used to haul sugarcane

                - each car could hold 8 horses or forty men

                - 100 POWs packed into each boxcar

                - POWs who died remain standing

             - Capas - POWs exit boxcars - dead fall to floor

             - POWs 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  

        - Cabanatuan #1

    - Japan

        - Fukuoka #3B

            - POWs worked in the Yawata Steel Mills

Hell Ship:

    - Clyde Maru

        - Sailed: 23 July 1943 - Manila

        - Arrived: 7 August 1943 - Moji, Japan

Liberated: September 1945

Discharged: 13 April 1946

Died:

    - 11 June 1975 - Sacramento, California

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