Mother: Jeanette Calvert
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Memorial marker and among the Tablets of the missing at Manila American Cemetery & Memorial linked below.
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Capt. Wilbert Calvert boarded the Oryoku Maru at Manila sailing on 14 December 1944 for Subic Bay. After arriving there the same day, it was bombed by American planes while it was picking up Japanese personnel. As dusk came, the planes broke off the attack. The next day, the planes returned and resumed the attack. The Japanese abandoned ship. They then ordered the POWs to abandon ship during the air raid on the ship. When the American pilots saw the large number of men climbing from the ship’s holds, they stopped their attack. As the POWs swam to shore, the POWs were shot at by Japanese soldiers with machine guns. Surviving POWs were taken to San Fernando La Union and boarded onto a second ship, the Enoura Maru, which reached Takao, Formosa. While in harbor, on 9 January 1945, the ship was bombed by American planes resulting in the deaths of many POWs. They were buried in a mass grave on the island.
JimO (#46874118)
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Memorial marker and among the Tablets of the missing at Manila American Cemetery & Memorial linked below.
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Capt. Wilbert Calvert boarded the Oryoku Maru at Manila sailing on 14 December 1944 for Subic Bay. After arriving there the same day, it was bombed by American planes while it was picking up Japanese personnel. As dusk came, the planes broke off the attack. The next day, the planes returned and resumed the attack. The Japanese abandoned ship. They then ordered the POWs to abandon ship during the air raid on the ship. When the American pilots saw the large number of men climbing from the ship’s holds, they stopped their attack. As the POWs swam to shore, the POWs were shot at by Japanese soldiers with machine guns. Surviving POWs were taken to San Fernando La Union and boarded onto a second ship, the Enoura Maru, which reached Takao, Formosa. While in harbor, on 9 January 1945, the ship was bombed by American planes resulting in the deaths of many POWs. They were buried in a mass grave on the island.
JimO (#46874118)
Mother: Jeanette Calvert
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Memorial marker and among the Tablets of the missing at Manila American Cemetery & Memorial linked below.
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Capt. Wilbert Calvert boarded the Oryoku Maru at Manila sailing on 14 December 1944 for Subic Bay. After arriving there the same day, it was bombed by American planes while it was picking up Japanese personnel. As dusk came, the planes broke off the attack. The next day, the planes returned and resumed the attack. The Japanese abandoned ship. They then ordered the POWs to abandon ship during the air raid on the ship. When the American pilots saw the large number of men climbing from the ship’s holds, they stopped their attack. As the POWs swam to shore, the POWs were shot at by Japanese soldiers with machine guns. Surviving POWs were taken to San Fernando La Union and boarded onto a second ship, the Enoura Maru, which reached Takao, Formosa. While in harbor, on 9 January 1945, the ship was bombed by American planes resulting in the deaths of many POWs. They were buried in a mass grave on the island.
JimO (#46874118)
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Memorial marker and among the Tablets of the missing at Manila American Cemetery & Memorial linked below.
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Capt. Wilbert Calvert boarded the Oryoku Maru at Manila sailing on 14 December 1944 for Subic Bay. After arriving there the same day, it was bombed by American planes while it was picking up Japanese personnel. As dusk came, the planes broke off the attack. The next day, the planes returned and resumed the attack. The Japanese abandoned ship. They then ordered the POWs to abandon ship during the air raid on the ship. When the American pilots saw the large number of men climbing from the ship’s holds, they stopped their attack. As the POWs swam to shore, the POWs were shot at by Japanese soldiers with machine guns. Surviving POWs were taken to San Fernando La Union and boarded onto a second ship, the Enoura Maru, which reached Takao, Formosa. While in harbor, on 9 January 1945, the ship was bombed by American planes resulting in the deaths of many POWs. They were buried in a mass grave on the island.
JimO (#46874118)
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