Pvt. Albert Paul Naymick

Hometown: Youngstown, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 25 March 41 - Cleveland, Ohio

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

            - Battle of the Points - 27 January 1942 - 13 February 1942

                -  Agloloma and Anyasas Rivers Area

                    - tanks sent in attacked and disengaged Japanese

                    - according to Capt. Alvin Poweleit, the battalion's surgeon, the tanks

                      did a great deal of damage 

             - Battle of Tuol Pocket - 23 January - 17 February 1942

                - Japanese trapped behind Filipino-American lines

                    - B Company & C Company tanks were sent into pocket to wipeout the

                       resistance 

                    - Filipino soldiers rode on tanks and dropped grenades into Japanese

                      foxholes

                    - tanks also would park with one track over foxhole and spin by applying

                      power to one track

Prisoner of War: 

    - April 9, 1941

        - Death March

            - Mariveles - POWs started 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 rate 

        - Cabanatuan

        - Bilibid Prison

            - Yodogawa #3-D

                 - Work: steel mill

    - Japan 

            - Fukuoka #22 - transferred to camp - 8 May 1945

                 - Work: coal mine

Hell Ship:

    - Nagato Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 11 November 1942

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 14 November 1942

        - Sailed: 17 November 1942 

        - Arrived: Pescadores Islands – 17 November 1942

        - Sailed: 18 November 1942

        - Arrived: Keelung, Formosa - 18 November 1942

        - Sailed: 20 November 1942

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 25 November 1942

Liberated: September 1945

Promoted: Sergeant

Resided: Youngstown, Ohio

Note: Albert Naymick is the last surviving member of C Company     

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