2nd Lt Lloyd H. Magill Jr.

Parents: Lloyd H. Sr., & Oreta Magill

Siblings: 1 sister

Home: 117 Oregon Street - Bend, Oregon

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - Unknown

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

        - Tank Platoon Commander

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

Hell Ship:

    - Oryoku Maru

        - Boarded: 13 December 1944

            -1619 POWs boarded onto ship

        - Sailed: 14 December 1944

            - ship attacked by American planes

            - attack continued the next day

        - Sunk: 15 December 1944

            - Japanese abandoned ship

            - planes stop attack when they saw the large number of men climbing out of the ship's

              holds

            - Japanese fire at POWs as they swam ashore

            - POWs herded onto tennis courts

            - those who considered themselves too ill to go on taken into mountains and shot

            - POWs taken to San Fernando, La Union by train

    - Enoura Maru

        - POWs boarded

        - Sailed: San Fernando, La Union - 27 December 1944

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 31 December 1944

            - 9 January 1945 - planes from the U.S.S. Hornet attack

            - several bombs hit ship

            - one bomb hits forward hold killing many POWs and wounding many

    - Brazil Maru

        - Surviving POWs board ship - 11 January 1945

        - Sailed: Takao - 14 January 1945

 Died:

    - 24 January 1945 - wounds

        - Brazil Maru -still at sea

            - bodies of dead POWs thrown into sea

Memorial:

    - Greenwood Cemetery - Bend, Oregon

        - plaque in his memory is on his father's tomb

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