Cpl. Warren B. Smith Jr

Home: Salinas, California

Inducted:

    - U.S. Army

        - 10 February 1941 - Salinas Army Air Field

Training: 

    - Fort Lewis, Washington

Units: 

    - 194th Tank Battalion

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

        - served as General Weaver's orderly 

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

    - Formosa

        - Karenko Camp (Click on Camps)

        - Heito Camp, Formosa

            - Work: POWs cleared dried river bed of rocks

                - Japanese wanted to grow sugarcane

                - POWs worked in sugarcane processing plant 

        - Kinkaseki Camp

             - Work: slave labor in copper mine

        - Taihoku Camp #6

Hell Ship:

    - Nagara Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 12 August 1942

        - Arrived: Takao, Formosa - 14 August 1942

    - Otaru Maru

        - Sailed: Takao - 15 August 1942

        - Arrived: Keelung, Formosa - 15 August 1942

    - Taiko Maru

        - Sailed: Keelung, Formosa - 27 February 1945

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 5 March 1945

Liberated:

    - September 1945

Married:

Education: college graduate

Occupation: Executive - MacMillam Publishing

Residence: 6 Country Road - Westport, Conneticut

Died: 26 November 1994 - Westport, Conneticut

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