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Accion, Antonio

Rank and Name, Corporal Antonio Accion.

Unit/Placed in on, 14th Engineer Regiment, Philippine Scouts.

Bataan Death March

(April 9, 1942)

Corporal Antonio Accion became a POW(April 9, 1942) an walked (60 miles) the Bataan Death March (70.000 pow), Many walked this march and many died (aprox.600, lack of nutrition and water) to Prison Camps in the Philippines and was send to Camp No Record, and became part of a work detail.

 

Antonio is born in the Philippines.

 

Parents, No Record.

 

Antonio enlisted the U.S.Army in Philippines with service number # 10301568.

 

Antonio died as a POW in Camp. No record on June 12, 1942, Corporal Antonio Accnion is honored with a POW Medal,  Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal and the WWII Victory Medal.

 

Antonio is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial  Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.

Wall of the missing.

 

Thanks to ABMC, https://abmc.gov Familysearch.com  https://www.familysearch.org Philippine Scouts Heritage Society http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Honorstates http://www.honorstates.org,   Geoffrey Roecker https://missingmarines.com/ P.O.W. Info: http://www.mansell.com/pow-index.html  Maurice van Doorn and Jean Louis Vijgen.

POW Camp no record
Bataan Death March
His rank Corporal