I was on the Death March and started from about Kilometer 210 down to Marvelis and from there to San Fernando Pampanga, where I boarded a cattle car, packed in like sardines to Capiz and thence to O'Donnell, Marvelies.   I was trucked from O'Donnell to Camp 3, Cabanatuan, and later taken to the Davao Penal Colony (Dapecol) Camp on Mindanao.   Later transferred to the Airfield detail at Lasang; at Zamboanga, about 3 September 1944, I was transferred to the hold the of ship Shinyo Maru.

This Hell Ship was sunk by the USS Submarine Paddle, on 7 September 1944 in Sindangin Bay, Mindinao, PI.   Most of the (about) 800 POWs died when the 2 torpedoes went off in the holds where we were packed, and the rest were shot in the water by the Japanese as we were swimming away from the sinking ship.   All that was left of about 800 POWs that had been on the unmarked ship were 83 men who managed to reach the shore near Sindangin and one man died the next day, leaving 82 survivors.

I was able to leave the Philippines by way of the USS Norwhale Submarine, and eventually wound up in Brisbane, Australia in the Army Hospital there, along with the other survivors of the sinking of the Shinyo Maru.   I have a complete list of the 82 survivors,  (I am one of them) and there are 25 of these men alive today.

Contact me if you want any information from my list.

"Ted" Pflueger
teepee954PG@redshift.com