Lang

Born: August 1918 - Saint Paul, Minnesota

Parents: August & Marie Lang

Siblings: 3 brothers, 2 sisters

Hometown: New Brighton, Minnesota

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 20 March 1941

Training:

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: Philippine Islands

Engagements:

- Battle of Luzon

- 8 December 1941 - 6 January 1942

- Battle of Bataan

- 7 January 1942 - 9 April 1942

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
                - 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:

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 rat

- Cabanatuan #1

- Davao - 27 October 1942 - 6 June 1944

- first American plane seen in two years in late May 1944

- Japanese began to evacuate POWs

- Bilibid Prison

Japan:

- Nagoya #5B

- sulfuric acid production

- Toyama Camp #7-B

- Work: Scrap metal smelter

Hell Ships:

- Unknown Ship

- Sailed: Manila

- Arrived: Bugo, Mindano

- Maru #760

- Sailed: Bugo, Mindano - 18 October 1942

- Arrived: Lasang, Mindano - 23 October 1942

- Yashu Maru

- Sailed: Lasang, Mindanao - 12 June 1944

- Arrived: Cebu City - 17 June 1944

-Teiryu Maru

- Sailed: Cebu City - 21 June 1944

- Arrived: Manila - 24 June 1944

- Nissyo Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 17 July 1944

- Arrived: Moji, Japan - 3 August 1944

Liberated: 5 September 1945

Died:

- 1992 - Cumberland, Wisconsin