Parents: William & Adeline Robinette

    - mother worked as servant after his father's death

    - lived in house his mother worked in

Siblings: 4 sisters, 2 brothers

Hometown: Mansfield, Ohio

Inducted:

    - U. S. Army

        - 27 January 1941 - Ft. Hayes - Columbus, Ohio

Training: 

    - Fort Knox, Kentucky

    - Camp Polk, Louisiana

Overseas Duty: 

    - Philippine Islands

Engagements: 

    - Battle of Luzon

    - Battle of Bataan

Prisoner of War: 

    - 9 April 1942

       - Death March

            - POWs started march at Mariveles on the southern tip of

               Bataan

            - POWs ran past Japanese artillery firing on Corregidor

                - American artillery returned fire

            - San Fernando - POWs put into small wooden boxcars used to

              haul sugarcane

                - each boxcar could hold eight horse or forty men

                - Japanese packed 100 POWs into each boxcar

                - POWs who died remained standing

            - Capas - POWs exit boxcars - the dead fell to the floor

            - POWs walked the last ten miles to Camp O'Donnell 

POW Camps: 

    - Philippine Islands: 

        - Camp O'Donnell

            - unfinished Filipino Army training base

            - Japanese put the camp into use as a POW camp 

            - one water spigot for the entire camp 

            - as many as 50 POWs died each day

            - Japanese opened new camp at Cabanatuan to lower death rate 

        - Cabanatuan #1

Died:

    - 9 July 1943 - beriberi

  -  Approximate time of death - 10:00 PM

Buried:

    - Beaver Creek Cemetery - Wood County, Ohio