CABANATUAN MILITARY PRISON CAMP
US Army troops sucessfully liberated Cabanatuan on the night of January 30, 1945.
Unknown Navy Lt. Billy Ball Bert Bank is a survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March. Ray Bliss, Jr. 2nd Lt. Jesse Carl Boak Marvin Bowman John R. Bumgarner John Ashward Clark Robert Clavier Merald W. Cook(e) Sgt. Leonard E. Cyr William Bryan Duncan Albert Erickson also at O'Donnell, Cabanatuan, Bilibid, Fukuoka #3, and Mukden. Lt. Douglas Robin Fisher Travis W. Flowers Daniel Shinton Gothie Alfred (Bud) Hausam Wilbur W. Heinsohn James Hildebrand is a survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March. Boder Duane "Sport" Jordan Ben Ewing King Charles H. Looney John Allen McCarty LeRoy F. Osburn John V. Phillips Howard V. Pugh, Jr. Cipriano Ramirez is a survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March. Dennis Charles Raines Donald Rutter Andrew Sabo (then to Tanagawa Prison Camp) Orral Leroy Whitehead Clyde Woodham Ballard King Yeates The book, "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides, talks about the mission of an elite group fo 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners included the last survivors of the Bataan Death March left in the camp, and their extraordinary will to live. Jim is mentioned on page 337. or would like to be added to my POW/Internee e-mail distribution list, please let the me know. Thanks! |