World War II Honoree

Donald C. Webb

Branch of Service

U.S. Army

Hometown

Montrose, Colorado

Honored By

Orville L. Kline

Rank: Corporal. On March 3, 1941, he entered the United States Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Deployed to the Philippine Islands, Southwest Pacific Theater of Operations and served with the 19th Quartermaster Truck Company an element of the Quartermaster Corps. His unit participated in the Philippine Campaign, the conquest of the Philippine Islands by the Imperial Japanese Army and Naval Forces. While retreating to the Bataan Peninsula in the Battle of Bataan (Battle Dates: January 7-April 9, 1942) the Japanese forces captured him on the last day of the battle. His captors subjected him to participate in the Bataan Death March, incarcerated at the Prisoner of War #1 Cabanatuan Nueva Province, Luzon. On July 4, 1944, he boarded a ‘Hell Ship’, an unmarked merchant vessel, the Japanese Sekiho Maru ‘Canadian Inventor’ along with 1,024 other American prisoners destined for a Prisoner of War Camp in Japan arriving Moji, Japan on September 1, 1944 and held captive in the Prisoner of War Camp at Chikko Osaka. This Soldier, an American Patriot, who so gallantly served his country, was a Prisoner of War for 43 months, upon his liberation by Allied Forces on November 9, 1945.