Cpl. Thomas Davenport

Grandparents: Ed & Sarah Davenport

    - lived with grandparents as a child 

Home: Franklin County, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 24 January 1941 - Fort Hayes, Columbus, Ohio

Training: 

    - Ft. Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

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 spiget for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day
            - Japanese opened new POW camp to lower death rate 

        - Calanuan - Bridge Building Detail

Died: 27 May 1942 - Calanuan, Philippine Islands

    - cause of death on 192nd Report - dysentery 

Burial: 

    - Original Burial:  Calauan Cemetery - Philippine Islands

    - Remains Returned Home

Note: Thomas Davenport may have been one of the POWs executed after another

          POW escaped from the bridge building detail.  His army record lists him as

          having been Killed In Action.

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