Company C of the 194th Tank Battalion

[Subdeacon Joe]

The end of the Second World War brought about the repatriation of tens of thousands of Americans held as Prisoners of War by the Japanese. Among the longest suffering of these were the men of Company C of the 194th Tank Battalion, who surrendered to the Japanese in April 1942, on the Bataan Peninsula. 

Company C was originally the 40th Tank Company of the California National Guard, from Salinas,CA.  

Of Company C’s original strength of 107 men, six were killed in combat and 54 died under horrible conditions in Japanese Prisoner of War Camps or as slave laborers in Japan. Only 47 men were able to return home. 

Armed with M3 light tanks and half tracks, the men of the 194th distinguished themselves in numerous actions, delaying the Japanese advance by months.

This article was written by Burton Anderson for the 50th Anniversary of their liberation. 

http://mchsmuseum.com/news/0410.pdf

 

[Seamus McGillicuddy]

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[Subdeacon Joe]

34 minutes ago, Seamus McGillicuddy said:

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https://mchsmuseum.com/bataan-memorial/