U.S. Army Service No. (ASN): #19054551

Enlistment Date: 04/02/1941

59th Coast Artillery Regiment

Wayne M. Evans is listed as Died Non-Battle in the 1946 Army and Army Air Forces Personnel Casualty List for Ravalli County, Montana.

***I would like to thank Rae Victor Find A Grave ID 47012853 for adding her photos of Wayne to this memorial***

***I would like to thank Lee B Find A Grave ID 49297503 for updating the birth location information on this memorial***

Suggested edit by SBR Find a Grave ID49039178 : The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that U.S. Army Private Wayne M. Evans, 21, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for March 30, 2020. In late 1941, Pvt. Evans was a member of Battery G, 59th Coast Artillery Regiment, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.

See Pvt Wayne Milo Evans (1921-1942) - Find a Grave Memorial for new burial location.

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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.