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Wallace Clifford Lee

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Wallace Clifford Lee

Birth
Crow Wing County, Minnesota, USA
Death
8 Jun 1942 (aged 19)
Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija Province, Central Luzon, Philippines
Burial
Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
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16 1 5 ft. NEC
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Wallace Lee was a member A Company, 194th Tank Battalion. The company was originally a Minnesota National Guard Tank Company. He was stationed in the Philippine Islands when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Ten hours later, he lived through the bombing of Clark Airfield. For four months, he fought, with the other soldiers on Bataan, to slow Japan’s conquest of the Philippines. Without food, without adequate supplies, and no hope of being relieved, he became a Prisoner of War on April 9, 1942, when Bataan was surrendered to the Japanese.
He took part in the death march from Mariveles to Capas. There, 100 POWs were packed into small wooden boxcars that could hold 40 men or 8 horses. At San Fernando, the living left the boxcars and those who had died fell to the floor. The POWs walked the final miles to Camp O’Donnell.
As a POW, he was held at Camp O’Donnell and Cabanatuan in the Philippines. He died at Cabanatuan from disease and was buried at the camp cemetery.
After the war, his family requested that his remains be returned to Brainerd, Minnesota. In 1949, he was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Brainerd.
(Contributed by JimO)
Wallace Lee was a member A Company, 194th Tank Battalion. The company was originally a Minnesota National Guard Tank Company. He was stationed in the Philippine Islands when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Ten hours later, he lived through the bombing of Clark Airfield. For four months, he fought, with the other soldiers on Bataan, to slow Japan’s conquest of the Philippines. Without food, without adequate supplies, and no hope of being relieved, he became a Prisoner of War on April 9, 1942, when Bataan was surrendered to the Japanese.
He took part in the death march from Mariveles to Capas. There, 100 POWs were packed into small wooden boxcars that could hold 40 men or 8 horses. At San Fernando, the living left the boxcars and those who had died fell to the floor. The POWs walked the final miles to Camp O’Donnell.
As a POW, he was held at Camp O’Donnell and Cabanatuan in the Philippines. He died at Cabanatuan from disease and was buried at the camp cemetery.
After the war, his family requested that his remains be returned to Brainerd, Minnesota. In 1949, he was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Brainerd.
(Contributed by JimO)

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