James E. Holcomb
Service # 6969499
Entered Service From: North Carolina
Rank: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces
Unit: 48th Materiel Squadron
Date of Death: 24 July 1942, from malaria in the Japanese POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121.
Buried: Manila American Cemetery – Plot G, Row 16, Grave 3
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James Elijah Holcomb (1917 South Carolina), a resident of 521 East 5th Street, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, enlisted in the U.S. Army on 16 March 1939.
James E. Holcomb (22 South Carolina) is found in the 1940 United States Federal Census (13 April 1940) for Barksdale Field,Bossier Parish, Louisiana (sheet 5A, line 23). He had lived in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1935. James had completed four years of high school. He was a soldier in the military.
48th Materiel Squadron
Staff Sergeant James E. Holcomb, age 24, (S/N 6969499), died at 10:45 pm, 24 July 1942, of malaria, in Barracks #13, Hospital Area. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 21 men to die that day, the 1148th prisoner to die in the camp since in opened in June. In all 786 men died in the prison during the month of July. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men who were captured on Bataan.
He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs who died during that 24 hour period. After the war, all the remains in the Cabanatuan Prison cemetery that could be found were disinterred (between December 1945 - February 1946) and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands. He was reburied in Block 3, Row 19, Grave 2375 (D-D 6841). The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948. From there, according to the wishes of his next of kin (father, Mr. Edward E. Holcomb), Staff Sergeant James E. Holcomb was buried in his final resting place in the 7701 Ft. McKinley Cemetery (now known as the Manila American Cemetery) – Plot G, Row 16, Grave 3.
James E. Holcomb
Service # 6969499
Entered Service From: North Carolina
Rank: Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air Forces
Unit: 48th Materiel Squadron
Date of Death: 24 July 1942, from malaria in the Japanese POW Camp 1, Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija Province, Luzon, Philippines 15-121.
Buried: Manila American Cemetery – Plot G, Row 16, Grave 3
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James Elijah Holcomb (1917 South Carolina), a resident of 521 East 5th Street, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, enlisted in the U.S. Army on 16 March 1939.
James E. Holcomb (22 South Carolina) is found in the 1940 United States Federal Census (13 April 1940) for Barksdale Field,Bossier Parish, Louisiana (sheet 5A, line 23). He had lived in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1935. James had completed four years of high school. He was a soldier in the military.
48th Materiel Squadron
Staff Sergeant James E. Holcomb, age 24, (S/N 6969499), died at 10:45 pm, 24 July 1942, of malaria, in Barracks #13, Hospital Area. His death was recorded on a condensed milk can label. He was one of 21 men to die that day, the 1148th prisoner to die in the camp since in opened in June. In all 786 men died in the prison during the month of July. By the time the camp was liberated in early 1945, 2,764 Americans had died at Cabanatuan in 2½ years. 90% of the POW deaths in Cabanatuan were men who were captured on Bataan.
He was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery along with other deceased American POWs who died during that 24 hour period. After the war, all the remains in the Cabanatuan Prison cemetery that could be found were disinterred (between December 1945 - February 1946) and brought to 7747 USAF Cemetery, Manila #2, Philippine Islands. He was reburied in Block 3, Row 19, Grave 2375 (D-D 6841). The deceased in Manila #2 (over 11,000 American soldiers) rested there until their removal to the American Graves Registration Service Manila Mausoleum in the summer of 1948. From there, according to the wishes of his next of kin (father, Mr. Edward E. Holcomb), Staff Sergeant James E. Holcomb was buried in his final resting place in the 7701 Ft. McKinley Cemetery (now known as the Manila American Cemetery) – Plot G, Row 16, Grave 3.
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