Lundquist

Born: 2 March 1915 - South Dakota

Parents: Clarence & Naomi Lundquist

Hometown: Aberdeen, South Dakota

Residence: 543 Brimhall - Saint Paul, Minnesota

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 11 April 1941 - Fort Snelling, Minnesota

Training:

- Fort Lewis, Washington

- Fort Knox, Kentucky

- radio operator school

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:

- 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

- POWs transferred to Bilibid - 6 March 1944

- Bilibid Prison

- POWs taken to Port Area of Manila

- Japan

- Tokyo #8B

- POWs worked in Hitachi Copper Mine

- transferred out - 14 August 1944

- Tokyo #1B

- POWs loaded and unloaded boxcars

- Mitsushima

- POWs carried cement in construction of dam

Hell Ship:

- Taihoku Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 24 March 1944

- Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 27 March 1944

- Sailed: 3 April 1944

-Arrived: Osaka, Japan - 10 April 1944

- POWs took train to Hitachi arriving there on 11 April 1944

Liberated: 4 September 1945

Discharged: 27 June 1946

Died: 22 September 1997 - Palo Alto, California