"When each group of weary Bataan marchers arrived at Camp O’Donnell, the prisoners were required to spread out all personal effects for inspection. (Such things as watches or fountain pens had long since been taken by Jap soldiers.) All those found to have anything of Japanese origin were beaten with bamboo sticks and marched off to the guard house. That night
they would disappear, without trial or hearing, never to be seen again. Among the Americans thus summarily disposed of were; Colonel Ralph Hirsch, Field Artillery, of Luzon Force
Hq.; Major Nelson, Field Artillery, from a tank outfit; Major James H. Hazelwood, AA Brigade Hq.; Captains Eddie Kemp, Reynaldo Gonzales, Raymond Twaits, Wm. C. Schuetz, and Sergeants Keeler and Prosser, all of the 515th Coast Artillery (AA), and several other enlisted men.
Objectionable articles found in their possession varied. One had a small Jap Bag; several had samples of invasion money, and one. Captain Schuetz, had a small Japanese fan...The guards arbitrarily assumed that anything Japanese had been garnered from bodies of their dead in Bataan. No questions were asked; the unfortunate POWs were simply marched
off to their execution. Source: THE HARD WAY HOME by William C. Braly (1947 University of Michigan) page 29.
they would disappear, without trial or hearing, never to be seen again. Among the Americans thus summarily disposed of were; Colonel Ralph Hirsch, Field Artillery, of Luzon Force
Hq.; Major Nelson, Field Artillery, from a tank outfit; Major James H. Hazelwood, AA Brigade Hq.; Captains Eddie Kemp, Reynaldo Gonzales, Raymond Twaits, Wm. C. Schuetz, and Sergeants Keeler and Prosser, all of the 515th Coast Artillery (AA), and several other enlisted men.
Objectionable articles found in their possession varied. One had a small Jap Bag; several had samples of invasion money, and one. Captain Schuetz, had a small Japanese fan...The guards arbitrarily assumed that anything Japanese had been garnered from bodies of their dead in Bataan. No questions were asked; the unfortunate POWs were simply marched
off to their execution. Source: THE HARD WAY HOME by William C. Braly (1947 University of Michigan) page 29.
"When each group of weary Bataan marchers arrived at Camp O’Donnell, the prisoners were required to spread out all personal effects for inspection. (Such things as watches or fountain pens had long since been taken by Jap soldiers.) All those found to have anything of Japanese origin were beaten with bamboo sticks and marched off to the guard house. That night
they would disappear, without trial or hearing, never to be seen again. Among the Americans thus summarily disposed of were; Colonel Ralph Hirsch, Field Artillery, of Luzon Force
Hq.; Major Nelson, Field Artillery, from a tank outfit; Major James H. Hazelwood, AA Brigade Hq.; Captains Eddie Kemp, Reynaldo Gonzales, Raymond Twaits, Wm. C. Schuetz, and Sergeants Keeler and Prosser, all of the 515th Coast Artillery (AA), and several other enlisted men.
Objectionable articles found in their possession varied. One had a small Jap Bag; several had samples of invasion money, and one. Captain Schuetz, had a small Japanese fan...The guards arbitrarily assumed that anything Japanese had been garnered from bodies of their dead in Bataan. No questions were asked; the unfortunate POWs were simply marched
off to their execution. Source: THE HARD WAY HOME by William C. Braly (1947 University of Michigan) page 29.
they would disappear, without trial or hearing, never to be seen again. Among the Americans thus summarily disposed of were; Colonel Ralph Hirsch, Field Artillery, of Luzon Force
Hq.; Major Nelson, Field Artillery, from a tank outfit; Major James H. Hazelwood, AA Brigade Hq.; Captains Eddie Kemp, Reynaldo Gonzales, Raymond Twaits, Wm. C. Schuetz, and Sergeants Keeler and Prosser, all of the 515th Coast Artillery (AA), and several other enlisted men.
Objectionable articles found in their possession varied. One had a small Jap Bag; several had samples of invasion money, and one. Captain Schuetz, had a small Japanese fan...The guards arbitrarily assumed that anything Japanese had been garnered from bodies of their dead in Bataan. No questions were asked; the unfortunate POWs were simply marched
off to their execution. Source: THE HARD WAY HOME by William C. Braly (1947 University of Michigan) page 29.
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