Pvt. Zoeth P. Skinner

Parents: Charles H. Skinner & Florence M. Perry-Skinner

Siblings: 1 sister

Hometown: Portland, Oregon

Enlisted:

    - Oregon National Guard

        - 1940

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 1940 - Portland, Oregon

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

        - reconnaissance platoon

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

        - Las Pinas Detail

            - POWs built runways and revetments with picks and shovels 

        - Bilibid Prison

Liberated:

    - 4 February 1945

Married:

    - Esperenza Barrigan

        - 13 April 1960 - Guadalajara, Mexico

Children:

    - 3 sons 1 daughter

Home: Riverton, Oregon

Discharged: 25 September 1945

Military Career:

Enlisted:

    - Oregon Air National Guard

        - armaments

Occupation:

    - gun smith

Rank: First Sergeant

Residence:

    - lived in Guadalajara, Mexico

Died:

    - 17 August 2007 - Riverton, Oregon

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