Army Service No. (ASN): #19051039
Induction Date: 12/21/1940
7th Material Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, 5th Air Base Group
Awards: Purple Heart
George W. Shafer is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Orange County, California.
***I would like to thank MSB Find A Grave ID 46948018 for adding their photo of George and also linking family members to this memorial***
Private George W. Shafer was born on 28 Feb 1917 in Newport Beach, California. He was the son of William Edward Shafer and Bessie Belle Blewett. He was a civilian pilot before the war and volunteered for service in December 1940. He received Air Force training in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Shafer was serving with the 7th Material Squadron, 5th Air Base Group at Fort Stotensburg in the Philippines at the outbreak of World War II. Initially, the Army informed his family that he had been killed-in-action during the final stand at Corregidor on 7 May 1942. Actually, Shafer was captured in Bataan following the American surrender there on 9 Apr 1942. Shafer was taken to the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He died of dysentery in the camp on 24 Jun 1942 and was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery. His remains have never been identified. Today, Pvt. George W. Shafer is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and at the Cabanatuan American Memorial.
Contributor: MSB (46948018)
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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.
Induction Date: 12/21/1940
7th Material Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, 5th Air Base Group
Awards: Purple Heart
George W. Shafer is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Orange County, California.
***I would like to thank MSB Find A Grave ID 46948018 for adding their photo of George and also linking family members to this memorial***
Private George W. Shafer was born on 28 Feb 1917 in Newport Beach, California. He was the son of William Edward Shafer and Bessie Belle Blewett. He was a civilian pilot before the war and volunteered for service in December 1940. He received Air Force training in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Shafer was serving with the 7th Material Squadron, 5th Air Base Group at Fort Stotensburg in the Philippines at the outbreak of World War II. Initially, the Army informed his family that he had been killed-in-action during the final stand at Corregidor on 7 May 1942. Actually, Shafer was captured in Bataan following the American surrender there on 9 Apr 1942. Shafer was taken to the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He died of dysentery in the camp on 24 Jun 1942 and was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery. His remains have never been identified. Today, Pvt. George W. Shafer is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and at the Cabanatuan American Memorial.
Contributor: MSB (46948018)
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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.
Army Service No. (ASN): #19051039
Induction Date: 12/21/1940
7th Material Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, 5th Air Base Group
Awards: Purple Heart
George W. Shafer is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Orange County, California.
***I would like to thank MSB Find A Grave ID 46948018 for adding their photo of George and also linking family members to this memorial***
Private George W. Shafer was born on 28 Feb 1917 in Newport Beach, California. He was the son of William Edward Shafer and Bessie Belle Blewett. He was a civilian pilot before the war and volunteered for service in December 1940. He received Air Force training in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Shafer was serving with the 7th Material Squadron, 5th Air Base Group at Fort Stotensburg in the Philippines at the outbreak of World War II. Initially, the Army informed his family that he had been killed-in-action during the final stand at Corregidor on 7 May 1942. Actually, Shafer was captured in Bataan following the American surrender there on 9 Apr 1942. Shafer was taken to the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He died of dysentery in the camp on 24 Jun 1942 and was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery. His remains have never been identified. Today, Pvt. George W. Shafer is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and at the Cabanatuan American Memorial.
Contributor: MSB (46948018)
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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.
Induction Date: 12/21/1940
7th Material Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, 5th Air Base Group
Awards: Purple Heart
George W. Shafer is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Orange County, California.
***I would like to thank MSB Find A Grave ID 46948018 for adding their photo of George and also linking family members to this memorial***
Private George W. Shafer was born on 28 Feb 1917 in Newport Beach, California. He was the son of William Edward Shafer and Bessie Belle Blewett. He was a civilian pilot before the war and volunteered for service in December 1940. He received Air Force training in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Shafer was serving with the 7th Material Squadron, 5th Air Base Group at Fort Stotensburg in the Philippines at the outbreak of World War II. Initially, the Army informed his family that he had been killed-in-action during the final stand at Corregidor on 7 May 1942. Actually, Shafer was captured in Bataan following the American surrender there on 9 Apr 1942. Shafer was taken to the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province. He died of dysentery in the camp on 24 Jun 1942 and was buried in a communal grave in the camp cemetery. His remains have never been identified. Today, Pvt. George W. Shafer is memorialized on the Walls of the Missing at the Manila American Cemetery and at the Cabanatuan American Memorial.
Contributor: MSB (46948018)
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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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