ShultzRI

Born: 9 April 1916 - Meda, Oregon

Parents: Irvin J. Shultz & Emma F. Rosenthal-Shultz

Hometown: Meda, Orgeon

- lived in North Kelly Butte, Oregon

Enlisted:

- Oregon National Guard

Inducted:

- U. S. Army

- 16 October 1940 - Camp Murphy, Tacoma, Washington

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:

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

- left camp - 6 March 1944

- Bilibid Prison

- held there until 24 March 1944

- taken to Port Area of Manila

- Japan

- Hitachi

- POWs take two day train ride to camp

- Transferred: August 1944

- Kawasaki #1B

- POWs loaded and unloaded freight cars

Hell Ship:

- Taikoku Maru

- Sailed: Manila - 24 March 1944

- Arrived: Takao - 26 March 1944

- Sailed: Unknown

- Arrived: Moji, Japan - 10 April 1944

Liberated:

- September 1945

Discharged: 29 January 1946

Married: Phoebe Elsie Mae Buckbee

Children: 1 daughter

Died: 31 May 1978 - Portland, Oregon