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PFC Evan Milton Evans

Birth
Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
15 Jan 1943 (aged 33)
Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija Province, Central Luzon, Philippines
Monument
Manila, Capital District, National Capital Region, Philippines Add to Map
Plot
CENOTAPH to MEMORIAL ID 46751680 Carnegie Cemetery
Memorial ID
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Serial No. #18049939
Enlistment Date: 02/10/1941
Battery B, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment

NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Garfield County, Oklahoma...Died Non-Battle.

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The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.
Serial No. #18049939
Enlistment Date: 02/10/1941
Battery B, 60th Coast Artillery Regiment

NARA War Department records list this soldiers Home of Record as Garfield County, Oklahoma...Died Non-Battle.

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The Cabanatuan Memorial is located 85 miles north of Manila, within the city of Cabanatuan, Luzon, and Republic of the Philippines. It marks the site of the Japanese Cabanatuan Prisoner of War Camp where approximately 75,000 American and Philippine servicemen and civilians were held captive from 1942 to 1945, after the fall of the Philippine Island during World War II.
The memorial consists of a 90-foot concrete base in the center of which rests a marble altar. It is surrounded on three sides by a fence of steel rods and on the fourth by a
Wall of Honor upon which are inscribed the names of the approximately 3,000 Americans who lost their lives while being held captive. Co-located on the site are the West Point Monument, which pays homage to the 170 American and 6 Filipino graduates of the U.S. Military Academy who lost their lives during the defense of the Philippines or while prisoner of war at Cabanatuan and the Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor (a Filipino veterans organization) memorial which salutes their American fallen comrades.

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