Pvt. Howard R. Williams

Parents: Mr. & Mrs. Grover C. Williams

Siblings: Unknown

Hometown: Bohl, Idaho

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 21 March 1941 - Salt Lake City, Utah

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

Died:

    - 24 October 1942 - diphtheria

        - Approximate time of death - 6:00 AM

Buried:

    - American Military Cemetery - Manila, Philippine Islands

        - Plot:  L   Row:  8   Grave:  7

            - he is buried as a member of the 27th Bomb Group 

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