Anthony R. Tamulevich (Pennsylvania), a resident of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry (S/N 6886520) on 06 February 1940 at Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Florida.
1940 United States Federal Census (19 April 1940): Fort McDonell Military Reservation, Sausalito Township, Marin County, California (sheet 24A, line 5) - Private Anthony R. Tamulevich (21 Pennsylvania, soldier, U.S. Army). He had lived in Edwardsville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1935. Anthony had completed 2 years of high school.
Private Tamulevich was assigned to K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment and sent to the Philippines.
The 31st Infantry Regiment was stationed in Manila, Philippines. Private First Class, Anthony R. Tamulevich is found on the roster of K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment on 07 December 1941 in the Philippines.
"At 2AM on December 12, the 31st Infantry boarded trucks, civilian buses and commandeered taxicabs and headed north from from Fort McKinley....Around 1 PM on December 13, the regiment's lead element was dropped off at kilometer post 137, near Pilar on the Bataan Peninsula's main north-south road. The next morning, the 3d Battalion (Tamulevich's) marched westward, taking up positions about three miles east of the barrio (village) of Bagac to guard against possible Japanese landings on Bagac Bay.
For the next four months the 31st Infantry Regiment fought the Japanese in a steady retreat including the Defense of Layac (January 6), the counter attack at Abucay (January 17-25) and the battle for Mt. Samat (April 3-6).
By the evening of April 8, the situation was clearly hopeless. With ammunition, rations and supplies practically exhausted and most of his best units destroyed, General Edward P. King surrendered the Luzon Force the next morning, 09 April 1942. Anthony R. Tamulevich became a POW of the Japanese. The men were herded into columns and marched (in what became known at the the Bataan Death March) 68 miles to San Fernando and then by train to Camp O'Donnell. Source: Bataan Roster of the 31st Inf Regt (US) from Karl Lowe
Conditions in the camp were horrible. An estimated 1,600 Americans died in the first forty days and 20,000 Filipinos died in the first four months.
By 08 October 1942, thousands men were shipped out to other camps. At some point Anthony was send down to the POW camp (Palawan, Camp 10-A) on the island of Palawan, 360 miles southwest of Manila.
On 01 October 1944, Anthony Tamulevich along with approximately 1,100 POWs boarded the Hokusen Maru (nicknamed the Benjo Maru) at Pier 7 in Manila for Japan. They suffered in the holds (two 45' X 45' cargo holds - 550 POW's in each) until October 3rd before the Hokusen Maru joined a convoy and departed Manila. The convoy was attacked by submarines on two different occasions and the Hokusen Maru was one of only four ships left in the convoy to arrive at Hong Kong on October 11th. Anthony died on 11 October 1944 of *heart exhaustion (according to the newspaper). He was buried at sea in Hong Kong Bay.
*The Japanese issued documents certifying that each death was caused by malaria, dysentery, beriberi, pellagra, diphtheria and a number of other causes, in fact, for many of them, anything but the real cause – starvation and malnutrition.
Here is how Ralph W. Walden describes the trip in his memoir: "The POWs came down the vertical ladder until we were standing shoulder to shoulder and the hatch was closed. It was liken to a crowded elevator and when we sat down we drew up our knees ad lounged against one another. There was no place at all to stretch out. The floor was filthy having been used to transport horses and coal. There was no ship ventilation and no port holes so the heat was enormous. The hatch cover was timber with small spaces between them. The bathroom was a round wooden tub lowered by cable and placed directly under the hatch. I was glad that my position was one person away from the bulkhead and not near the commode. There were two meals of rice served daily, each was a very small portion, and there was no soup or other food. The real serious problem here was a lack of sufficient water. We go no more than a canteen cup full each day, not nearly enough with the heat we endured and none to wash our mess kit. Some tried to catch rainwater as it drained from the sides of the dirty hatch. I could hear the booming sounds as the Americans attacked the convoy many, many times. The hatch was covered and secured by cable during each attack and we knew that we would go down with the ship if it were sunk. It sure was a helpless feeling. There were *many deaths...." Source: Memoir: Ralph W. Walden Remembers Defense of Corregidor & 40 Month as a POW in Japan, pages 13-14.
The Hokusen Maru remained in Hong Kong harbor (where it survived some air attacks) until October 21st when it sailed for Formosa.
*A total of 38 men died on that voyage from Manila to Formosa.
Private First Class, Anthony R. Tamulevich was one of 70 men from his company (K) that died in captivity. In all 1155 men from the 31st Infantry Regiment died in captivity, roughly half of the regiment's strength on the day the war began.
Anthony R. Tamulevich was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
1940 United States Federal Census (19 April 1940): Fort McDonell Military Reservation, Sausalito Township, Marin County, California (sheet 24A, line 5) - Private Anthony R. Tamulevich (21 Pennsylvania, soldier, U.S. Army). He had lived in Edwardsville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1935. Anthony had completed 2 years of high school.
Private Tamulevich was assigned to K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment and sent to the Philippines.
The 31st Infantry Regiment was stationed in Manila, Philippines. Private First Class, Anthony R. Tamulevich is found on the roster of K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment on 07 December 1941 in the Philippines.
"At 2AM on December 12, the 31st Infantry boarded trucks, civilian buses and commandeered taxicabs and headed north from from Fort McKinley....Around 1 PM on December 13, the regiment's lead element was dropped off at kilometer post 137, near Pilar on the Bataan Peninsula's main north-south road. The next morning, the 3d Battalion (Tamulevich's) marched westward, taking up positions about three miles east of the barrio (village) of Bagac to guard against possible Japanese landings on Bagac Bay.
For the next four months the 31st Infantry Regiment fought the Japanese in a steady retreat including the Defense of Layac (January 6), the counter attack at Abucay (January 17-25) and the battle for Mt. Samat (April 3-6).
By the evening of April 8, the situation was clearly hopeless. With ammunition, rations and supplies practically exhausted and most of his best units destroyed, General Edward P. King surrendered the Luzon Force the next morning, 09 April 1942. Anthony R. Tamulevich became a POW of the Japanese. The men were herded into columns and marched (in what became known at the the Bataan Death March) 68 miles to San Fernando and then by train to Camp O'Donnell. Source: Bataan Roster of the 31st Inf Regt (US) from Karl Lowe
Conditions in the camp were horrible. An estimated 1,600 Americans died in the first forty days and 20,000 Filipinos died in the first four months.
By 08 October 1942, thousands men were shipped out to other camps. At some point Anthony was send down to the POW camp (Palawan, Camp 10-A) on the island of Palawan, 360 miles southwest of Manila.
On 01 October 1944, Anthony Tamulevich along with approximately 1,100 POWs boarded the Hokusen Maru (nicknamed the Benjo Maru) at Pier 7 in Manila for Japan. They suffered in the holds (two 45' X 45' cargo holds - 550 POW's in each) until October 3rd before the Hokusen Maru joined a convoy and departed Manila. The convoy was attacked by submarines on two different occasions and the Hokusen Maru was one of only four ships left in the convoy to arrive at Hong Kong on October 11th. Anthony died on 11 October 1944 of *heart exhaustion (according to the newspaper). He was buried at sea in Hong Kong Bay.
*The Japanese issued documents certifying that each death was caused by malaria, dysentery, beriberi, pellagra, diphtheria and a number of other causes, in fact, for many of them, anything but the real cause – starvation and malnutrition.
Here is how Ralph W. Walden describes the trip in his memoir: "The POWs came down the vertical ladder until we were standing shoulder to shoulder and the hatch was closed. It was liken to a crowded elevator and when we sat down we drew up our knees ad lounged against one another. There was no place at all to stretch out. The floor was filthy having been used to transport horses and coal. There was no ship ventilation and no port holes so the heat was enormous. The hatch cover was timber with small spaces between them. The bathroom was a round wooden tub lowered by cable and placed directly under the hatch. I was glad that my position was one person away from the bulkhead and not near the commode. There were two meals of rice served daily, each was a very small portion, and there was no soup or other food. The real serious problem here was a lack of sufficient water. We go no more than a canteen cup full each day, not nearly enough with the heat we endured and none to wash our mess kit. Some tried to catch rainwater as it drained from the sides of the dirty hatch. I could hear the booming sounds as the Americans attacked the convoy many, many times. The hatch was covered and secured by cable during each attack and we knew that we would go down with the ship if it were sunk. It sure was a helpless feeling. There were *many deaths...." Source: Memoir: Ralph W. Walden Remembers Defense of Corregidor & 40 Month as a POW in Japan, pages 13-14.
The Hokusen Maru remained in Hong Kong harbor (where it survived some air attacks) until October 21st when it sailed for Formosa.
*A total of 38 men died on that voyage from Manila to Formosa.
Private First Class, Anthony R. Tamulevich was one of 70 men from his company (K) that died in captivity. In all 1155 men from the 31st Infantry Regiment died in captivity, roughly half of the regiment's strength on the day the war began.
Anthony R. Tamulevich was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
Anthony R. Tamulevich (Pennsylvania), a resident of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the U.S. Army Infantry (S/N 6886520) on 06 February 1940 at Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, Florida.
1940 United States Federal Census (19 April 1940): Fort McDonell Military Reservation, Sausalito Township, Marin County, California (sheet 24A, line 5) - Private Anthony R. Tamulevich (21 Pennsylvania, soldier, U.S. Army). He had lived in Edwardsville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1935. Anthony had completed 2 years of high school.
Private Tamulevich was assigned to K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment and sent to the Philippines.
The 31st Infantry Regiment was stationed in Manila, Philippines. Private First Class, Anthony R. Tamulevich is found on the roster of K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment on 07 December 1941 in the Philippines.
"At 2AM on December 12, the 31st Infantry boarded trucks, civilian buses and commandeered taxicabs and headed north from from Fort McKinley....Around 1 PM on December 13, the regiment's lead element was dropped off at kilometer post 137, near Pilar on the Bataan Peninsula's main north-south road. The next morning, the 3d Battalion (Tamulevich's) marched westward, taking up positions about three miles east of the barrio (village) of Bagac to guard against possible Japanese landings on Bagac Bay.
For the next four months the 31st Infantry Regiment fought the Japanese in a steady retreat including the Defense of Layac (January 6), the counter attack at Abucay (January 17-25) and the battle for Mt. Samat (April 3-6).
By the evening of April 8, the situation was clearly hopeless. With ammunition, rations and supplies practically exhausted and most of his best units destroyed, General Edward P. King surrendered the Luzon Force the next morning, 09 April 1942. Anthony R. Tamulevich became a POW of the Japanese. The men were herded into columns and marched (in what became known at the the Bataan Death March) 68 miles to San Fernando and then by train to Camp O'Donnell. Source: Bataan Roster of the 31st Inf Regt (US) from Karl Lowe
Conditions in the camp were horrible. An estimated 1,600 Americans died in the first forty days and 20,000 Filipinos died in the first four months.
By 08 October 1942, thousands men were shipped out to other camps. At some point Anthony was send down to the POW camp (Palawan, Camp 10-A) on the island of Palawan, 360 miles southwest of Manila.
On 01 October 1944, Anthony Tamulevich along with approximately 1,100 POWs boarded the Hokusen Maru (nicknamed the Benjo Maru) at Pier 7 in Manila for Japan. They suffered in the holds (two 45' X 45' cargo holds - 550 POW's in each) until October 3rd before the Hokusen Maru joined a convoy and departed Manila. The convoy was attacked by submarines on two different occasions and the Hokusen Maru was one of only four ships left in the convoy to arrive at Hong Kong on October 11th. Anthony died on 11 October 1944 of *heart exhaustion (according to the newspaper). He was buried at sea in Hong Kong Bay.
*The Japanese issued documents certifying that each death was caused by malaria, dysentery, beriberi, pellagra, diphtheria and a number of other causes, in fact, for many of them, anything but the real cause – starvation and malnutrition.
Here is how Ralph W. Walden describes the trip in his memoir: "The POWs came down the vertical ladder until we were standing shoulder to shoulder and the hatch was closed. It was liken to a crowded elevator and when we sat down we drew up our knees ad lounged against one another. There was no place at all to stretch out. The floor was filthy having been used to transport horses and coal. There was no ship ventilation and no port holes so the heat was enormous. The hatch cover was timber with small spaces between them. The bathroom was a round wooden tub lowered by cable and placed directly under the hatch. I was glad that my position was one person away from the bulkhead and not near the commode. There were two meals of rice served daily, each was a very small portion, and there was no soup or other food. The real serious problem here was a lack of sufficient water. We go no more than a canteen cup full each day, not nearly enough with the heat we endured and none to wash our mess kit. Some tried to catch rainwater as it drained from the sides of the dirty hatch. I could hear the booming sounds as the Americans attacked the convoy many, many times. The hatch was covered and secured by cable during each attack and we knew that we would go down with the ship if it were sunk. It sure was a helpless feeling. There were *many deaths...." Source: Memoir: Ralph W. Walden Remembers Defense of Corregidor & 40 Month as a POW in Japan, pages 13-14.
The Hokusen Maru remained in Hong Kong harbor (where it survived some air attacks) until October 21st when it sailed for Formosa.
*A total of 38 men died on that voyage from Manila to Formosa.
Private First Class, Anthony R. Tamulevich was one of 70 men from his company (K) that died in captivity. In all 1155 men from the 31st Infantry Regiment died in captivity, roughly half of the regiment's strength on the day the war began.
Anthony R. Tamulevich was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
1940 United States Federal Census (19 April 1940): Fort McDonell Military Reservation, Sausalito Township, Marin County, California (sheet 24A, line 5) - Private Anthony R. Tamulevich (21 Pennsylvania, soldier, U.S. Army). He had lived in Edwardsville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 1935. Anthony had completed 2 years of high school.
Private Tamulevich was assigned to K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment and sent to the Philippines.
The 31st Infantry Regiment was stationed in Manila, Philippines. Private First Class, Anthony R. Tamulevich is found on the roster of K Company, 31st Infantry Regiment on 07 December 1941 in the Philippines.
"At 2AM on December 12, the 31st Infantry boarded trucks, civilian buses and commandeered taxicabs and headed north from from Fort McKinley....Around 1 PM on December 13, the regiment's lead element was dropped off at kilometer post 137, near Pilar on the Bataan Peninsula's main north-south road. The next morning, the 3d Battalion (Tamulevich's) marched westward, taking up positions about three miles east of the barrio (village) of Bagac to guard against possible Japanese landings on Bagac Bay.
For the next four months the 31st Infantry Regiment fought the Japanese in a steady retreat including the Defense of Layac (January 6), the counter attack at Abucay (January 17-25) and the battle for Mt. Samat (April 3-6).
By the evening of April 8, the situation was clearly hopeless. With ammunition, rations and supplies practically exhausted and most of his best units destroyed, General Edward P. King surrendered the Luzon Force the next morning, 09 April 1942. Anthony R. Tamulevich became a POW of the Japanese. The men were herded into columns and marched (in what became known at the the Bataan Death March) 68 miles to San Fernando and then by train to Camp O'Donnell. Source: Bataan Roster of the 31st Inf Regt (US) from Karl Lowe
Conditions in the camp were horrible. An estimated 1,600 Americans died in the first forty days and 20,000 Filipinos died in the first four months.
By 08 October 1942, thousands men were shipped out to other camps. At some point Anthony was send down to the POW camp (Palawan, Camp 10-A) on the island of Palawan, 360 miles southwest of Manila.
On 01 October 1944, Anthony Tamulevich along with approximately 1,100 POWs boarded the Hokusen Maru (nicknamed the Benjo Maru) at Pier 7 in Manila for Japan. They suffered in the holds (two 45' X 45' cargo holds - 550 POW's in each) until October 3rd before the Hokusen Maru joined a convoy and departed Manila. The convoy was attacked by submarines on two different occasions and the Hokusen Maru was one of only four ships left in the convoy to arrive at Hong Kong on October 11th. Anthony died on 11 October 1944 of *heart exhaustion (according to the newspaper). He was buried at sea in Hong Kong Bay.
*The Japanese issued documents certifying that each death was caused by malaria, dysentery, beriberi, pellagra, diphtheria and a number of other causes, in fact, for many of them, anything but the real cause – starvation and malnutrition.
Here is how Ralph W. Walden describes the trip in his memoir: "The POWs came down the vertical ladder until we were standing shoulder to shoulder and the hatch was closed. It was liken to a crowded elevator and when we sat down we drew up our knees ad lounged against one another. There was no place at all to stretch out. The floor was filthy having been used to transport horses and coal. There was no ship ventilation and no port holes so the heat was enormous. The hatch cover was timber with small spaces between them. The bathroom was a round wooden tub lowered by cable and placed directly under the hatch. I was glad that my position was one person away from the bulkhead and not near the commode. There were two meals of rice served daily, each was a very small portion, and there was no soup or other food. The real serious problem here was a lack of sufficient water. We go no more than a canteen cup full each day, not nearly enough with the heat we endured and none to wash our mess kit. Some tried to catch rainwater as it drained from the sides of the dirty hatch. I could hear the booming sounds as the Americans attacked the convoy many, many times. The hatch was covered and secured by cable during each attack and we knew that we would go down with the ship if it were sunk. It sure was a helpless feeling. There were *many deaths...." Source: Memoir: Ralph W. Walden Remembers Defense of Corregidor & 40 Month as a POW in Japan, pages 13-14.
The Hokusen Maru remained in Hong Kong harbor (where it survived some air attacks) until October 21st when it sailed for Formosa.
*A total of 38 men died on that voyage from Manila to Formosa.
Private First Class, Anthony R. Tamulevich was one of 70 men from his company (K) that died in captivity. In all 1155 men from the 31st Infantry Regiment died in captivity, roughly half of the regiment's strength on the day the war began.
Anthony R. Tamulevich was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
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