Pfc. John Daniel Stehwien Jr.

Parents: John D. Stehwien Sr. & Bertha Stehwien

Siblings: Unknown

Home: Missouri

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - Unknown

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:

    - 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

        - Port Area Detail

            - 13 June 1942 - POWs brought to warehouse which served as barracks

                - POWs worked as stevedores

            - 17 July 1944

                - POWs taken to Pier 7 for transport to Japan

    - Japan

        - Tatoyama Camp

        - Nagoya #2

            - slave labor - Daido Electric Steel Company

                - made steel wheels

Hell Ship:

    - Nissyo Maru

        - Sailed: Manila - 17 July 1944

            - 1600 POWs on ship

            - survived attack by an American submarines

        - Arrived: Moji, Japan - 3 August 1944

Liberated:

    - 4 September 1945

Discharged: 4 April 1946

Died: 27 December 1998 - Lowery City, Missouri

Buried:

    - Lowery City Cemetery, Lowery City, Missouri

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