Pvt. Saul Rubenstein

Born: 27 October 1919 - New York Parents: Unknown Home: Davenport, California Inducted:     - U. S. Army         - 15 May 1939 Trainiug:     - Fort Lewis, Washington Unit:     - Unknown     - 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         - Bilibid Prison         - Davao         - Cabanatuan     - Japan         - Nagoya #5             - 150 POWs came from Nagoya #7B                 - POWs worked at Nippon Soda Factory             - sulphuric acid manufacturing Hell Ship:     - Canadian Inventor or Clyde Maru         - both ships arrived with POWs in 1944 Liberated:     - September 1945 Discharged: 16 June 1946 Residence:     - San Rafael, California Died:     - 17 November 1988 - San Rafael, California

 

 

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