T/sgt. Allan Donald Lang

    - known as "Donald" to his family and friends

Parents: Charles & Anna Lang

Siblings: Sidney & Russell

Hometown: Spring School Road - Alisal, California

Occupation: carpenter - construction

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:

    - POWs started march at Mariveles at southern tip of Bataan 

    - Donald started march with appendicitis. His brother, Sidney, carried him until Sydney fell

    - POWs had to run past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

        - Corregidor returned fire as POWs passed

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

        - each boxcar could hold eight horse or forty men

        - Japanese put 100 POWs in each boxcar 

        - POWs who died remained standing 

        - POWs left boxcars - dead fell to floor of boxcars

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

Killed in Action:    

  - bayoneted by a Japanese guard and left for dead

    - A British Army Officer and a Catholic priest found him and cared for him

    - T/Sgt. Allan D. Lang died on April  30, 1942, of his wounds

Buried:

    - November 1948

         - El Carmelo Cemetery - Pacific Grove, California

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