Rosenvall, Clay Lenno – ww2 Pacific

Name and Rank, Private First Class Clay Lenno Rosenvall.

Unit/placed in, Headquarters Squadron, 5th Air Base Group.

Camp Davao Prison and Penal Farm

Formerly the Davao Penal Colony (DaPeCol), was established on January 21, 1932 in Panabo City, Davao del Norte, Philippines. It has a land area of 30,000 hectares with a prison reservation of 8,000 hectares. During World War II, the Davao Penal Colony was the biggest prison establishment in the country which was used by the Japanese invading army as their imperial garrison.

Arisan Maru

The Arisan Maru was a Hell Ships (former Cargo, used for Transport POW’s to other Camps) sunk on Nov. 24, 1944.

The Arisan Maru, sailed from Manila on October 11, 1944 for Japan. This ship was sunk by the American submarine, USS Shark with a torpedo, on November 24, 1944. There were 1800 POWs aboard – nine men survived this sinking. Two days later, five of the survivors were rescued by a Chinese fishing junk. The Chinese helped them reach American Air Corps forces. Other survivors were recaptured by a Japanese destroyer and taken to Formosa.

This Hell Ship sank in the South China Sea making it the worst naval disaster in the history of the United States.

Clay was born on Aug. 21, 1920 in Gunnison, Sanpete County, Utah.

Father, Lenno G. Rosenvall.

Mother, Lauretta (Jepson) Rosenvall.

Sisters, Virginia Scheier and Terry L. Rosenvall.

Brother, Don C. Rosenvall.

Clay entered the service from Utah with service number # 19010475.

Clay L, Rosenvall rank/duty was a Private First Class in the United States Army Air Forces.

Clay was KIA on Sep. 7, 1944, when the Shinyo Maru was hit by a Torpedo from the USS Paddle and sunk (not known it was a POW transport) He tried to escape the sinking ship, but got shot by the Japanese Guards, he is honored with the Purple Heart, POW Medal, United States Aviator Badge, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Clay also has a Memorial Grave at Memory Grove Memorial

Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA.

Thanks to, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH6M-XHF

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.