Pvt. Edgar P. Peters

Parents: Herman & Gertrude Peters

Siblings: 3 brothers

Hometown: Austin, Texas

Inducted: 

    - U. S. Army 

        - 19 March 1941 - Houston, Texas

Nickname: Pete

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Units: 

    - 753rd Tank Battalion

    - 192nd 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 spiget for entire camp
            - as many as 50 POWs died each day

        - Work Detail: bridge building detail

        - Cabanatuan

            - Work: - wood collection for kitchen

                        - garden

                        - carried rice for kitchen

Liberated: 31 December 1944 - Cabanatuan - U. S. Rangers

Discharged: 26 July 1945

Married: Kathleen L. Falk - 2 October 1946

Children: Two

Work: oil refinery construction

Died: 18 July 1995 - Bell, Texas

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