Pvt. Brenton Delisle LeBlanc

Born: 8 November 1918 - Montana Parents: George D. & Rose LeBlanc Siblings: 2 brothers Hometown: Anaconda, Montana Enlisted:     - U.S. Army         - 7 April 1941 - Fort Missoula, Montana Training:     - Fort Lewis, Washington Units:     - 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           - Cabanatuan     - Japan:         - Osaka Main Camp             - camp destroyed in air raid             - POWs sent to Nagoya #10B         - Nagoya #10B             - Work: stevedores                 - POWs unloaded ships Liberated: 6 Septmber 1945 Discharged: 21 February 1947 Died: 2 July 1996 - Anaconda, Montana

 

 

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